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Ideas from 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' by Roger M. White [2006], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'' by White,Roger M. [Continuum 2006,978-0-82648-618-9]].

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4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic
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.