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23505 | Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' |
Full Idea: There is no way within Aristotelian logic that you can give a proper expression for the logical form of such a proposition as 'Everyone loves someone'. | |||
From: Roger M. White (Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' [2006], 1 'Frege') | |||
A reaction: This needs a combination of two different quantifiers. |