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Leonardi.DB
a logical geometry project

A New Logic (1912), p. 181
by Mercier, Charles

Caption

THE SQUARES OF OPPOSITION OF PURPOSIVE QUANTITIES.

Logic

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

Geometry

Shape
Rectangle (irregular)
Colinearity range
0–1
Coplanarity range
0
Cospatiality range
0
Representation of contradiction
N.A.

Vertex description

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

Edge description

Style

Diagram is colored
No
Diagram is embellished
No

Additional notes

After collapsing the two uppermost, equivalent formulas, this basically becomes a pentagon. Its negation closure is a JSB sigma-3.
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