Note 187 — Chapter VII

I have practically borrowed the above mode of expression from Miss Jones, who describes an affirmative categorical proposition as “a proposition which asserts identity of application in diversity of signification” (General Logic, p. 20). Miss Jones’s meaning may, however, be slightly different from that intended in the text, and I am unable to agree with her general treatment of the import of categorical propositions, as she does not appear to allow that before we can regard a proposition as asserting identity of application we must implicitly, if not explicitly, have quantified the predicate.