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True or false: what a universal claim covers

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'All S is P' makes a claim about every S.
  2. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    'Some S is P' makes a claim about every S.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'No S is P' makes a claim about every S.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A universal proposition distributes its subject.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Some' in logic means 'at least one'.

Explanation

A universal statement speaks about the whole of its subject a particular one does not. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.
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