A mahsurah proposition concerns members of a universal class and explicitly states whether the assertion holds of all members or some members. “Every human is a living being” specifies all. “Some living beings are human” specifies some. This is different from classifying the concept itself.
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Quantified categorical propositions
Propositions: Categorical and Conditional Forms
A mahsurah proposition concerns members of a universal class and explicitly states whether the assertion holds of all members or some members. “Every human is a living being” specifies all. “Some living beings are human” specifies some. This is different from classifying the concept itself.