Deontological Square, Hexagon, and Decagon: A Deontic Framework for Supererogation (2012), p. 203
by Joerden, Jan C.
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Caption
- The deontological square
Legend
- 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
- Shape
- Rectangle (irregular)
- Colinearity range
- 0
- Coplanarity range
- 0
- Cospatiality range
- 0
- Representation of contradiction
- By central symmetry
Logic
Geometry
- Conceptual info
- No
- Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
- No
- Form
- none
- Label type
- linguistic
- Language
- English
- Lexical field
- deontic operators
- Contains partial sentences or single words
- Yes
- Contains abbreviations
- No
- Contains definitions of relations
- No
- Form
- dotted lines ,
- bold solid lines ,
- solid lines ,
- dashed lines
- Has arrowheads
- Yes
- Overlap
- No
- Curved
- No
- Hooked
- No
- As wide as vertices
- No
- Label type
- symbolic ,
- none
- Symbolic field
- logic
- Contains partial formulas or symbols
- Yes
- Logical system
- propositional logic
Vertex description
Edge description
- Diagram is colored
- No
- Diagram is embellished
- No
Style
Additional notes
- The edges are labeled with propositional connectives corresponding to the Aristotelian relations (cf. Theorem 1 of Smessaert & Demey, 2014, Logical Geometries and Information in the Square of Oppositions, Journal of Logic, Language and Information 23 : 527 - 565).