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On the Aristotelian Roots of the Modal Square of Opposition (2021), p. 335
by Geudens, Christophe; Demey, Lorenz

Caption

The relations from T1-T10 mapped onto the modal quadrants (rearranged)$^{36}$

Logic

Aristotelian family
Classical Sigma-2
Boolean complexity
3
Number of labels per vertex (at most)
5
Equivalence between (some) labels of the same vertex
Yes
Analogy between (some) labels of the same vertex
No
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
rectangular
Label type
linguistic
,
generic placeholders
Language
English
Lexical field
modalities
Contains partial sentences or single words
Yes
Contains abbreviations
No

Edge description

Contains definitions of relations
No
Form
solid lines
,
none
,
dashed lines
Has arrowheads
Yes
Overlap
No
Curved
No
Hooked
No
As wide as vertices
No
Contains text
No
Label type
none

Style

Diagram is colored
No
Diagram is embellished
No
Tags
Leuven
;
duality

Additional notes

Footnote 36 (cf. caption) reads as follows: "As opposed to Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, arrows in Fig. 6 indicate entailment relations, not subalternation relations. Also note that within each quadrant, we do not display those entailments that follow (by transitivity) from the entailments that are displayed, in order to optimize visual clarity. This concretely means that (i) the entailment from the predicate of possibility to the predicate of impossibility and (ii) the entailments from the predicates of possibility and contingency to the predicate of necessity in each quadrant are not displayed." (Pp. 335-336.)
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