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Distribution is a property of a categorical proposition. But what kinds of propositions can express distribution? Is the quality only limited to one kind of proposition?

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In our last post, we discovered that distribution is a property of a categorical proposition, through which a statement asserts something specific about a named group. But what kinds of propositions can express distribution? Is the quality only limited to one kind of proposition?

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In our last post, we discovered that distribution is a property of a categorical proposition; through this property, a statement asserts something specific about a named group. But what kinds of propositions can express distribution? Is the quality only limited to one kind of proposition?

We might be excused for thinking that distribution only appears in A-propositions, since those propositions use the ...

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