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Definite Indefinite
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Universal Particular.

257. Another very obvious defeat of terminology is that the word
'universal' is naturally opposed to 'singular,' whereas it is here so
used as to include it; while, on the other hand, there is no obvious
difference between universal and general, though in the division the
latter is distinguished from the former as species from genus.



_Affirmative and Negative Propositions._


258. This division rests upon the Quality of propositions.

259. It is the quality of the form to be affirmative or negative:
the quality of the matter, as we saw before ( 204), is to be true or
false. But since formal logic takes no account of the matter of
thought, when we speak of 'quality' we are understood to mean the
quality of the form.

260. By combining the division of propositions
according to quantity with the division according to quality,
we obtain four kinds of proposition, namely--

(1) Universal Affirmative (A).