10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBCONTRARIES»
Discover the use of
subcontraries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
subcontraries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Critical Reflection: A Textbook for Critical Thinking
Subcontraries: Two statements are subcontraries if they cannot both be false,
although they may both be true. "Some A are B" and "Some A are not B" are
subcontraries. It is conceivable that they are both true, although inconceivable
that they ...
Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic, 2005
The rules for subcontraries may be derived from the rules for contraries taken
together with those for contradictories. We illustrate this by an indirect proof of
R3's first clause, which is equivalent to R3a. Given: Inference rules for
contradictories ...
William Thomas Parry, Edward A. Hacker, 1991
3
Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic
Sherwood presents this example to show what can happen when there are
unperceived subcontraries in the positio. He understands (i) and (ii) as
subcontraries, and consequently he locates the respondent's mistake at (3a). It
follows from the ...
4
Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions ...
'Some elephants are white' and 'some elephants are not white' are subcontraries.
According to this scheme: (1) only one of a pair of contraries can be true, neither
need be true; (2) both subcontraries can be true; (3) of a pair of contradictories, ...
5
Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction
I and O propositions are not subcontraries We said before that two propositions
are subcontraries if both cannot be false, but both can be true, and that I and O
propositions are subcontraries. However, if we allow the use of empty classes,
then ...
Alan Hausman, Howard Kahane, Paul Tidman, 2012
6
Dialectical Disputations: Books II-III
Aristotle does not distinguish subcontraries from contraries, but see Boet. Comm.
interp. I, PL 64:320B–C; Comm. interp. II, PL 64:470B–D; Intro. syll. cat., PL 64:
771C–72A, 775B–C; Peter of Spain, Summ. 1.14; corresp. 2.12 g. Subcontraries
...
Lorenzo Valla, Brian P. Copenhaver, Lodi Nauta, 2012
7
Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality
Perhaps Frye is implicitly suggesting that the category of women cannot have
subcontraries? According to traditional logic, classes can be subcontraries within
a larger class if some individuals can be'members of the larger class and also ...
8
The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: ...
Because in contingent matter one finds both false - as if I were to say, 'Every man
is white,' 'No man is white.' What is the law of subcontraries? If one is false, the
other is true. For that reason we can argue in the following way: 'This proposition
...
Norman Kretzmann, Eleonore Stump, 1988
9
Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition
The second is the opposition between the two indefinites or non quantified
propositions: these are in Averroes' view either contraries when they are meant to
be universal propositions, or subcontraries if they are meant to be particular ...
Jean-Yves Béziau, Dale Jacquette, 2012
Thus, if two propositions Q and P are contraries, P, will imply Q. Similarly, if two
propositions are subcontraries P (that is, P) and Q (that is, Q), Q will imply P. Let
us try to establish which among the 16 operations of the lattice are contraries and
...
Barbel Inhelder, Denys de Caprona, Angela Cornu-Wells, 2013
