Logic and Philosophy. Applicable to or involving the whole of a class or genus, or all the individuals or species comprising it; designating a…

Logic. Designating a proposition in which something is predicated, affirmatively or negatively, of some but not all of a class. Opposed to universal…

Logic. Designating both of a pair of subalterns (sense A. 1a); designating either proposition of such a pair (in relation to the other); (also) of…

Logic. Designating a proposition which is incapable of being false at the same time as its pair; (of a pair of propositions) related in such a way…

Logic. (See quots.)

Of or pertaining to a lemma; of the nature of a lemma.

Logic. Applied to propositions in which the subject has no mark of quantity; not distinguishing between ‘some’ and ‘all’.

Not quantified, indefinite. Also absol. as n.

implying ‘some but not all’.