The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
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page 18 of 121 (14%)
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This kind of Universal Proposition (where the Subject is a single
Thing) is called an 'INDIVIDUAL' Proposition. Now let us take "NICE Cakes" as the Subject of Proposition: that is, let us fix our thoughts on the LEFT-HAND half of the cupboard, where all the Cakes have attribute y, that is, "nice." ----- Suppose we find it marked like this:-- | | | 1 | What would that tell us? | | ----- | | | | | | ----- I hope that it is not necessary, after explaining the HORIZONTAL oblong so fully, to spend much time over the UPRIGHT one. I hope you will see, for yourself, that this means "some y are x", that is, "Some nice Cakes are new." "But," you will say, "we have had this case before. You put a red counter into No. 5, and you told us it meant 'some new Cakes are |
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