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Leonardi.DB
a logical geometry project

How to Square Knowledge and Belief (2012), p. 307
by Lenzen, Wolfgang

Caption

Complete square of opposition à la Engel (1st variant)

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 some other geometric feature

Vertex description

Conceptual info
No
Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
No
Form
none
Label type
symbolic
Symbolic field
logic
Contains partial formulas or symbols
No
Logical system
epistemic logic

Edge description

Style

Diagram is colored
No
Diagram is embellished
No

Additional notes

This is a 'twisted square': the contradiction relations are displayed horizontally, rather than on the diagonals.
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