Chapters 6 and 7 deal with the relationship between affirmative, negative, universal and particular propositions.
The distinction between universal and particular propositions is the basis of modern quantification theory.
In 1934 he formulated the principle of analytic induction, designed to identify universal propositions and causal laws.
Truth exists not in universal propositions but in concrete experience.
The truth of few universal propositions concerning substances is to be known.
Our nominal essences of substances furnish few universal propositions about them that are certain.
This is due to its ability to grasp the most highly universal propositions.
It is doubtful that universal propositions of any sort can be got.
You will surely tell me that this universal proposition is true 'Every man is a biped'.
Deprived of reason, faith has stressed feeling and experience, and so runs the risk of no longer being a universal proposition.
