User talk:Edward Fullerene

Square of oppositions and subalternation/superalternation.
Hi!

I appreciate your recent edits at Square of opposition. The article needs a good amount of work before it can really be presentable. I have just one concern. I also recently edited the article, in order to distinguish subalternation from superalternation as I thought the article was misleading in treating both particulars and universals [of the same quality] as "subalternates", etc. The article as it stood included no sources for this claim. I included two sources, including the Cohen & Nagel (1993), which established this distinction, where subalternates are implied by their superalternates. You've replaced the uppermost image with one that seems again to conflate the two (relating the statements of each pair on each side of quality symmetrically as "subalterns" rather than asymmetrically as "superaltern to subaltern") and also reiterated in the "In summary" bulleted list that the "universal affirmative and the particular affirmative are subalternates".

Do you think that the distinction as made in Cohen & Nagel is not well-made? Or would you be alright if I return to the old image and reinsert the distinction and sources? -- Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 14:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)