Universal+proposition
51Buddhist logic — This article presents the formal background to Buddhist logic which started at about 500 CE in ancient India and still has a living tradition in the Tibetan Gelug order. Like the logic of Aristotle, ancient Indian logic is a highly formal system… …
52u´ni|ver´sal|ness — u|ni|ver|sal «YOO nuh VUR suhl», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. a) of all; belonging to all; concerning all; shared by all: »Food is a universal need. Kings are not born; they are made by universal hallucination (George Bernard Shaw). b) coming from… …
53u|ni|ver|sal — «YOO nuh VUR suhl», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. a) of all; belonging to all; concerning all; shared by all: »Food is a universal need. Kings are not born; they are made by universal hallucination (George Bernard Shaw). b) coming from all; shared in …
54sub|al|tern — «suh BL tuhrn, SUHB uhl », noun, adjective. –n. 1. any commissioned officer in the British Army ranking below a captain: »His Majesty presented the Colours to two subalterns (London Times). 2. = subordinate. (Cf. ↑subordinate) 3. Logic. a… …
55Truthmaker — A truthmaker for a truthbearer is that entity in virtue of which the truthbearer is true. Philosophers have speculated on the question whether every truthbearer requires a truthmaker. Parmenides classic claim that what does not exist cannot be… …
56subaltern — I. adjective Etymology: Late Latin subalternus, from Latin sub + alternus alternate, from alter other (of two) more at alter Date: 1570 1. particular with reference to a related universal proposition < “some S is P” is a subaltern proposition to… …
57Locke: knowledge and its limits — Ian Tipton I That John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding is one of the philosophical classics is something nobody would deny, yet it is not easy to pinpoint precisely what is so special about it. Locke himself has been described as the …
58superaltern — |süpə|rȯltə(r)n noun ( s) Etymology: super + altern (as in subaltern) : a universal proposition in traditional logic that is a ground for the immediate inference of a corresponding subalternate * * * /sooh peuhr awl teuhrn/, n. Logic. a… …
59special — adj Special, especial, specific, particular, individual are closely related terms because all carry the meaning relating to or belonging to one thing or one class especially as distinguished from all the others. Both special and especial imply… …
60subaltern — subalternity, n. /sub awl teuhrn/ or, esp. for 3, 6, /sub euhl terrn /, adj. 1. lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee. 2. Brit. Mil. noting a commissioned officer below the rank of captain. 3. Logic. a. denoting the relation of one… …
