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Logic - Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
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U. Toto-total Affirmative -- All X is all Y.
A. Toto-partial Affirmative -- All X is some Y.
Y. Parti-total Affirmative -- Some X is all Y.
I. Parti-partial Affirmative -- Some X is some Y.
E. Toto-total Negative -- No X is any Y.
η. Toto-partial Negative -- No X is some Y.
O. Parti-total Negative -- Some X is not any Y.
ω. Parti-partial Negative -- Some X is not some Y.

Here A. I. E. O. correspond with those similarly symbolised in the usual
list, merely designating in the predicates the quantity which was
formerly treated as implicit.

§ 4. As to Relation, propositions are either Categorical or Conditional.
A Categorical Proposition is one in which the predicate is directly
affirmed or denied of the subject without any limitation of time, place,
or circumstance, extraneous to the subject, as _All men in England are
secure of justice_; in which proposition, though there is a limitation
of place ('in England'), it is included in the subject. Of this kind are
nearly all the examples that have yet been given, according to the form
_S is P_.

A Conditional Proposition is so called because the predication is made
under some limitation or condition not included in the subject, as _If a
man live in England, he is secure of justice_. Here the limitation
'living in England' is put into a conditional sentence extraneous to the
subject, 'he,' representing any man.

Conditional propositions, again, are of two kinds--Hypothetical and
Disjunctive. Hypothetical propositions are those that are limited by an
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