P: All leprechauns are shoemakers.P: No leprechauns are females.C: ?
TDePalo1991May 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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