Meanings
plural nonswans
- That which is not a swan.
This is not translated "~s," rather, it asserts the existence of at least one nonswan, and thus becomes "~Sa."
1968, Henry Ehlers, Logic by way of set theory, page 2941 more example
Thus, faced with three instances of swans flying west to east and a nonswan (say a crow) flying east to west, an accurate inductive generalization (from this set of four instances) would be that swans fly west to east[…]
1991, Derek Partridge, A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence, page 393
Origin
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