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Universal proposition   /jˌunəvˈərsəl prˌɑpəzˈɪʃən/   Listen
Universal proposition

noun
1.
(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class.  Synonym: universal.






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"Universal proposition" Quotes from Famous Books



... error and the calamity of every science." Nowhere, it is believed, can a more striking illustration of the truth of these pregnant words be found, than in the method adopted by necessitarians. They begin with the universal proposition, that every effect must have a cause, as a self-evident truth, and then proceed, not to examine and discover how the world is made, but to demonstrate how it must have been constructed. This is not to "interpret," ...
— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe



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