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William of Sherwood, SingularPropositions and the Hexagon of
Opposition.Yurii D. Khomskii
Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam
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Presentation
Singular propositions.
In traditional logic.
In Sherwood.
Sherwood & Hexagon of opposition
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Aristotelian propositions
In Aristotelian logic, categorical propositions are dividedinto four basic types:
Universal affirmative: “Every man is running”.
Universal negative: “No man is running”.
Particular affirmative: “Some man is running”.
Particular negative: “Some man is not running”.
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Aristotelian propositions
In Aristotelian logic, categorical propositions are dividedinto four basic types:
Universal affirmative: “Every man is running”.
Universal negative: “No man is running”.
Particular affirmative: “Some man is running”.
Particular negative: “Some man is not running”.
Possible relations between two propositions: contrary,subcontrary, contradictory or subalternate.
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Square of opposition
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Singular propositions
What to do with singular propositions ?
Singular affirmative: “Socrates is running”,“This man is running”.
Singular negative: “Socrates is not running”.“This man is not running”.
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Singular propositions
What to do with singular propositions ?
Singular affirmative: “Socrates is running”,“This man is running”.
Singular negative: “Socrates is not running”.“This man is not running”.
From the modern point of view:
universal = ∀
particular = ∃
singular corresponds to a sentence with e.g. a freevariable, or a constant symbol.
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Hexagon of opposition
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Czezowski
First published version:T. Czezowski, “On CertainPeculiarities of SingularPropositions” Mind 64, 1955.
Of course, using 20th century mathematical logic, such ahexagon is easily constructed.
But what about medieval and traditional philosophy?
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Traditional philosophy
Doctrine of traditional logic: there are only two types ofquantities: universal and particular.
Debate: is a singular proposition particular or universal?Most common view: universal!
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Arguments
Some arguments:
In a singular proposition, predication is of oneindividual, which is even less than in a particular.
In a singular propositions, predication is of the whole ofthe subject, just like in a universal.“This man is running” — is the subject term “man” or “this man”?
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Examples
Aristotle: mentions very briefly that singular affirmativeand singular negative are mutually contradictory.“. . . one must be true, the other false. This also holds good of propositions withsingular terms for their subjects, as ‘Socrates is white’ and ‘not white’.
(On Interpretation Ch. 7, 17b)
But not treated in Prior Analytics.
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Examples
Aristotle: mentions very briefly that singular affirmativeand singular negative are mutually contradictory.“. . . one must be true, the other false. This also holds good of propositions withsingular terms for their subjects, as ‘Socrates is white’ and ‘not white’.
(On Interpretation Ch. 7, 17b)
But not treated in Prior Analytics.
John Wallis, 1631: seems originator of the idea toregard singulars as universals.“A singular proposition, in a syllogistic disposition, always has universal force”
(Institutio Logicae, appendix)
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Examples
Arnauld & Nicole, 1662 (Port Royal Logic):“Although singular propositions differ from universals in not having a common subject,they should nevertheless be classified with them rather than with particulars, becausethey have a singular subject which is necessarily taken through its entire extension.”
(La logique ou l’art de penser, Part II, Ch.3)
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Examples
Arnauld & Nicole, 1662 (Port Royal Logic):“Although singular propositions differ from universals in not having a common subject,they should nevertheless be classified with them rather than with particulars, becausethey have a singular subject which is necessarily taken through its entire extension.”
(La logique ou l’art de penser, Part II, Ch.3)
Euler, 1761:“Certain authors insist, that a singular proposition must be ranked in the class ofparticulars; . . . However well founded this reasoning may appear, it cannot be admitted. . . It is clearly evident . . . that a singular proposition must be considered as universal”.
(Lettres à une Princess d’Allemagne, CVII)
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Examples
Leibniz:“It should be noted that (as far as the form is concerned) singular sentences are putwith the universals. For, although it is true that there was only one Apostle Peter, onecan nevertheless say that whoever has been the Apostle Peter has denied his master.”
(Nouveaux Essais sur l’entendement humain, IV. XVII. 8)
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Examples
Leibniz:“It should be noted that (as far as the form is concerned) singular sentences are putwith the universals. For, although it is true that there was only one Apostle Peter, onecan nevertheless say that whoever has been the Apostle Peter has denied his master.”
(Nouveaux Essais sur l’entendement humain, IV. XVII. 8)
“How is it that opposition is valid in the case of singular propositions—e.g. ‘The ApostlePeter is a soldier’ and ‘The Apostle Peter is not a soldier’—since elsewhere a universalaffirmative and a particular negative are opposed? Should we say that a singularproposition is equivalent to a particular and to a universal proposition? Yes, we should.”(On some logical difficulties)
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Examples
Even in the early 20th century:
Keynes, Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic, 1906:“Singular propositions may be regarded as forming a sub-class of universals, since inevery singular proposition the affirmation or denial is of the whole of the subject.”
(Part II, Ch. 2)
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Opposition of singular proposition
How was the opposition of singu-lar propositions analyzed?
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Opposition of singular proposition
How was the opposition of singu-lar propositions analyzed?
The contradiction between SA and SN was known sinceAristotle, but . . .
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Opposition of singular proposition
How was the opposition of singu-lar propositions analyzed?
The contradiction between SA and SN was known sinceAristotle, but . . .
Keynes: “Taking the proposition Socrates is wise, its contradictory is Socrates is
not wise; and so long as we keep to the same terms, we cannot go beyond this simple
denial. The proposition has, therefore, no formal contrary.”
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Back to Czezowski
1955: Czezowski presents thehexagon of opposition, and thecorresponding relations as a “newdiscovery”:
“. . . a distinction ought to be made between singular and universal propositions.”
“Opposition relations among the six propositions thus distinguished will be represented on ahexagon, analogously to the logical square.”
“. . . it has been inferred that there is no proposition that might properly be the contrary of asingular proposition. This inference is wrong.”
“Contrary to the belief quoted above, both singular propositions do have theircontraries—namely, universal propositions. But at the same time they are placed in arelation of subcontrariety to particular propositions.”
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Sherwood
Let’s go back some 800 years.
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Sherwood
Let’s go back some 800 years.
William of Sherwood:
English philosopher and logician, 1190–1249.
Not much known of his life.
Main works: Introductiones in Logicam andSyncategoremata.
The Introductions have survived in just one manuscript,probably from late 13th or early 14th century.
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Sherwood
“If two statements are singular and of differentquality they are not subcontraries but, in accordancewith the theory, contradictories – e.g. ‘Socrates isrunning’, ‘Socrates is not running’.
Note, moreover, that a universal affirmativeand a singular negative, as well as a universalnegative and a singular affirmative, are mutuallycontrary (at least as far as the law goes) because they can be false at the same time andcannot be true at the same time. Suppose that Socrates is running and no one else; in thatcase these statements are false: ‘every man is running’, ‘Socrates is not running.’ Again,suppose that Socrates is not running but everyone except him [is running]; then thesestatements are false: ‘no man is running,’ ‘Socrates is running’.”
“Universalis affirmativa et singularis negativa et etiam universalis negativa et singularisaffirmativa contrariantur ad minus quantum ad legem, quia possunt simul esse false et nonsimul vere.”
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Sherwood
Sherwood, in the early 13th century, had essentially thesame idea as Czezwoski in 1955.
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Sherwood
Sherwood, in the early 13th century, had essentially thesame idea as Czezwoski in 1955.
Why only Sherwood?
Particular passage overlooked by later logicians?
Misunderstood?
Not deemed important enough?
Didn’t fit the dichotomy: universal vs. particular?
Philosophers focused on other, more “philosophical”nature of singulars, rather than just the oppositionrelation they form with universals and particulars?
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The hexagon
Having established Sherwood’s accomplishment in thisarea, we ask an even more provocative question:
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The hexagon
Having established Sherwood’s accomplishment in thisarea, we ask an even more provocative question:
Could Sherwood even have conceived the Hexagon ofOpposition as a diagram ?
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The hexagon
From all the relations in our hexagon, the following areexplicitly mentioned by Sherwood:
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The hexagon
From all the relations in our hexagon, the following areexplicitly mentioned by Sherwood:
The others can easily be inferred.
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The hexagon
“[Passage quoted above]. This, then, is the divi-
sion of statements arising from the arrangements or
relation of one statement with another—viz. some
are contraries, some subcontraries, some subal-
terns, and some contradictories, as in the figure be-
low. ”
“Est igitur hec divisio enuntiationis, que accidit ei in ordinatione ad alterum sive secundum
comparationem scilicet quod quedam sunt contrarie, quedam subcontrarie, quedam
subalterne, quedam contradictorie, ut in subiecta figura.”
Which figure does this refer to?
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The hexagon
Since “as in the figure below” follows directly upon thedescription of the relations, we would expect the figure tobe some kind of hexagon.
But in the (only surviving) manuscript, it is the standardsquare .
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The hexagon
Two explanations:
1. Sherwood did not draw anything like the hexagon,leaving out singular propositions and their oppositionrelations.
2. He did draw something like the hexagon, but it is notpreserved in the manuscript.
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Evidence for the hexagon
To support the second claim, let’s look at another casewhere something strange is going on with Sherwood’sdiagrams.
Several chapter further in the Introductions.
Discusses four modalities: necessary, possible,unnecessary and impossible.
Says that these, likewise, are related throughcontrariety, subcontrariety, contradiction andsubalternation.
Presents the modal square of opposition.
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Modal Square of Opposition
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Modal Square of Opposition
“All these relations also appear in the accompanying figure. The figure could be arranged
differently, however, so that the contrary series could be put in the first, or upper, line, and the
subcontraries in the lower. But [the arrangement as given] coincides more closely with
Aristotle’s”
“Et hec omnia patent in figura. Posset tamen figura aliter ordinari, ut ordines contrarii
ponerentur in prima linea, que est superior et subcontrarii in inferiori. Sed iste magis
competit modo Aristotelis.”
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Modal Square of Opposition
How did Aristotle arrange the modalities?
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Modal Square of Opposition
How did Aristotle arrange the modalities?On Interpretation, Ch. 13 (22a)
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Modal Square of Opposition
How did Aristotle arrange the modalities?On Interpretation, Ch. 13 (22a)
So Sherwood basically says: “the figure could be arrangeddifferently, but I am giving Aristotle’s arrangement”.
But that is not the diagram found in the manuscript!
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Sherwood’s diagrams
So?
Later students and scribes changed Sherwood’sintended Modal Square, following his suggestion.
It seems that we cannot assume that Sherwood’soriginal diagrams are preserved in the currentmanuscript.
If so, could it be that Sherwood intended some diagramlike the hexagon of opposition to be there?
William of Sherwood, Singular Propositions and the Hexagon of Opposition. – p.27/28
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Conclusion
Whatever the case with the diagrams, Sherwood shoulddeserve credit for a theory of singular propositions whichseems superior to 17th, 18th and even 19th centurytheories.
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