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Multiple Quantification and the Use of Special Quantifiers in Early Sixteenth Century Logic (1978), p. 602
by Ashworth, E. Jennifer

Logic

Aristotelian family
Classical Sigma-2
Boolean complexity
3
Number of labels per vertex (at most)
1
Uniqueness of the vertices up to logical equivalence
Yes
Errors in the diagram
No

Geometry

Shape
Rectangle (irregular)
Colinearity range
0
Coplanarity range
0
Cospatiality range
0
Representation of contradiction
By central symmetry

Vertex description

Conceptual info
No
Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
No
Form
none
Label type
linguistic
Language
English
Lexical field
syllogistics
,
quantifiers
Contains partial sentences or single words
No
Contains abbreviations
Yes

Edge description

Style

Diagram is colored
No
Diagram is embellished
No
Tags
supposition theory

Additional notes

The letter 'a' is used to indicate that the term following it has merely confused supposition; the letter 'b' is used to indicate that the term following it has determinate supposition (cf. p. 601 - 602).

"Every A is b.B" can be formalized as: $\exists x (Bx \wedge \forall y(Ay \to y = x))$.

"a.A is not B" can be formalized as: $\forall x (Bx \to \exists y(Ay \wedge y \neq x))$.

(Note that there is a typo in the example formalization at the bottom of p. 601: the two highest-level disjunction signs should actually be conjunction signs.)
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