Daily Drills 52 - Section 52 - Question 3

P: All leprechauns are shoemakers.P: No leprechauns are females.C: ?

TDePalo1991 May 16, 2021

On Existential Import

I find it a bit weird that it’s just assumed that the terms used in the premises do not have, to use academic verbiage, existential import. In traditional (Aristotelian) logic, all terms are assumed to have existential import.

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