On the Historical Transformations of the Square of Opposition as Semiotic Object (2020), p. 12
by Vandoulakis, Ioannis M.; Denisova, Tatiana Yu.

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Caption

Boethius' diagrams of the Square of Opposition. Source: [40]

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

Square (regular)

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

circular

Label type

linguistic

Language

Latin

Lexical field

syllogistics

Contains partial sentences or single words

No

Contains abbreviations

Yes

Edge description

Style

Diagram is colored

No

Diagram is embellished

No