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- noun logic A
universal proposition from which can be inferred a correspondingsubaltern
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A proposition is a subaltern of another iff it must be true if its superaltern is true, and the superaltern must be false if the subaltern is false.
The Traditional Square of Opposition Parsons, Terence 2006
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