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On Interpratation   
subjoined table will make matters clear:
A. Affirmation B. Denial
Man is just Man is not just
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X
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D. Denial C. Affirmation
Man is not not-just Man is not-just
Here 'is' and 'is not' are added either to 'just' or to 'not-just'.
This then is the proper scheme for these propositions, as has been
said in the Analytics. The same rule holds good, if the subject is
distributed. Thus we have the table:
A'. Affirmation B'. Denial
Every man is just Not every man is just
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X
D'. Denial / C'. Affirmation
Not every man is not-just Every man is not-just
Yet here it is not possible, in the same way as in the former case,
that the propositions joined in the table by a diagonal line should
both be true; though under certain circumstances this is the case.
We have thus set out two pairs of opposite propositions; there are
moreover two other pairs, if a term be conjoined with 'not-man', the
latter forming a kind of subject. Thus:
A." B."
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