Still, the quantity of the predicate is often an important consideration; and though in ordinary usage the predicate is seldom predesignate, Logicians agree that in every Negative Proposition (see Sec.

2) the predicate is 'distributed,' that is to say, is denied altogether of the subject, and that this is involved in the form of denial.

To say _Some men are not brave_, is to declare that the quality for which men may be called brave is not found in any of the _Some men_ referred to: and to say _No men are proof against flattery_, cuts off the being 'proof against flattery' entirely from the list of human attributes.

On the other hand, every Affirmative Proposition is regarded as having an undistributed predicate; that is to say, its predicate is not affirmed exclusively of the subject.

_Some men are wise_ does not mean that 'wise' cannot be predicated of any other beings; it is equivalent to _Some men are wise_ (_whoever else may be_).