Universal Statement has no Existential Import/Examples/French Kings
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Examples of Use of Universal Statement has no Existential Import
The statement:
- All French kings are bald
has no existential import, as there are no French kings.
Hence All French kings are bald is vacuously true.
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): existential import
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): existential import