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The Pairing Rule

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Universal quantifiers take ⊃; existential quantifiers take ·.

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(x)(Sx · Px) says everything is both S and P — far too strong. (∃x)(Sx ⊃ Px) is true if anything at all fails to be S — far too weak.

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Both mispairings produce well-formed nonsense: grammatical, meaningful, and never what you meant.