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adjectiveprosleptic (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesBeing or involving a particular kind of proposition in a syllogism. (See Wikipedia article.)
Since a prosleptic formula involves generalization over kinds, it must be understood to entail every proposition expressible by […]
1972, Richard Walzer, Samuel Miklos Stern, Albert Hourani, Islamic Philosophy and the Classical Tradition, page 195
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