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Full Idea
Aristotelian logic has two quantifiers of the subject ('all' and 'some'), and two ways to combine the subject with the predicate ('have', and 'have not'), giving four propositions: all-s-have-p, all-s-have-not-p, some-s-have-p, and some-s-have-not-p.
Gist of Idea
Aristotelian logic has two quantifiers of the subject ('all' and 'some')
Source
report of Aristotle (Prior Analytics [c.328 BCE]) by Keith Devlin - Goodbye Descartes Ch.2
Book Ref
Devlin,Keith: 'Goodbye Descartes: the end of logic' [Wiley 1997], p.39
A Reaction
Frege seems to have switched from 'some' to 'at-least-one'. Since then other quantifiers have been proposed. See, for example, Ideas 7806 and 6068.
Related Ideas
Idea 7806 Boolos invented plural quantification [Boolos, by Benardete,JA]
Idea 6068 We need an Intentional Quantifier ("some of the things we talk about.."), so existence goes into the proposition [McGinn]