13.7: Negating “all,” “some,” or “no” statements

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This reading provides information about negating “all,” “some,” or “no” statements. Click on the link below to view the page “Negation—NOT—Compound Statements and ALL/SOME” created by Donna Roberts of the Oswego City School District Regents Exam Prep Center.

Negation—NOT—Compound Statements and ALL/SOME

For more information, look at page 229 of Logic and Sets, staring with “Statements involving the universal quantifiers all, no, non and every, or the existential quantifiers some and there exists at least one have to be negated in a different way.”

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