Aristotelian Logic (1991), p. 168
by Parry, William T.; Hacker, Edward A.
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Caption
- A Square Of Opposed A priori Categoricals.
- Aristotelian family
- Sigma-0 Graph
- Boolean complexity
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Shape
- Square (regular)
- Colinearity range
- 0
- Coplanarity range
- 0
- Cospatiality range
- 0
- Representation of contradiction
- By central symmetry
Logic
Geometry
- Conceptual info
- No
- Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
- Yes
- Form
- none
- Label type
- linguistic ,
- symbolic
- Language
- English
- Lexical field
- categorical
- Contains partial sentences or single words
- No
- Contains abbreviations
- Yes
- Symbolic field
- logic
- Contains partial formulas or symbols
- Yes
- Logical system
- syllogistics
- Contains definitions of relations
- No
- Form
- solid lines
- Has arrowheads
- Yes
- Overlap
- No
- Curved
- No
- Hooked
- No
- As wide as vertices
- No
- Contains text
- Yes
- Label type
- linguistic ,
- symbolic
- Language
- English
- Contains partial sentences or single words
- Yes
- Contain abbreviations
- No
- 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
- Tags
- Boolean closed ;
- non-contingent formulas
Style
Additional notes
- Ass and Iss are tautological (under the assumption of existential import), while Ess and Oss are contradictory (under that same assumption). Hence this diagram contains only non-contingent formulas, and is thus a sigma-0 diagram.
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).