The Medieval Octagon of Opposition for Sentences with Quantified Predicates (2014), p. 366
by Campos Benítez, Juan Manuel
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- Aristotelian family
- Sigma-4 Graph
- Number of labels per vertex (at most)
- 2
- Equivalence between (some) labels of the same vertex
- No
- Analogy between (some) labels of the same vertex
- No
- Uniqueness of the vertices up to logical equivalence
- Yes
- Errors in the diagram
- No
- Shape
- Rectangle (irregular)
- Colinearity range
- 0
- Coplanarity range
- 4
- Cospatiality range
- 0
- Representation of contradiction
- By some other geometric feature
Logic
Geometry
- Conceptual info
- No
- Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
- Yes
- Form
- none
- Label type
- symbolic
- Symbolic field
- logic
- Contains partial formulas or symbols
- Yes
- Logical system
- syllogistics
Vertex description
Edge description
- Diagram is colored
- No
- Diagram is embellished
- No
- Tags
- quantification of the predicate
Style
Additional notes
- (...) stands for universal quantification
[...] stands for existential quantification
/ stands for negation
The solid lines represent contrariety; the dotted lines represent subcontrariety. There are four contradictory pairs: A/O, A*/O*, N/R and N*/R*. It can be shown that the 16 other pairs of formulas are unconnected.