From the History of the Logic of Indefinite Propositions

Abstract

We have already mentioned, in Section 4 of the last chapter, that von Freytag ascribes the same Struktur to quantitatively undetermined judgments in the plural like ‘Europäer sind Menschen’ as to individual judgments ‘Sokrates ist Mensch’. The former judgment lacks an indication of whether all Europeans are meant, or only some. According to him, individual judgments have, logically speaking, no quantity (1961/65). From this he infers: “Individual judgments like “Socrates is (a) human being” hence have logically the same structure as “Europeans are human beings” or “Sinners are human beings”” (65f., my italics).