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By Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ian Mueller

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The final 14 chapters of ebook 1 of Aristotle's "Prior Analytics" are focused on the illustration within the formal language of syllogistic of propositions and arguments expressed in additional or much less daily Greek. In his statement on these chapters, "Alexander of Aphrodisias" explains a few of Aristotle's extra opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian rules in semantics and the philosophy of language. In doing so he offers an strange perception into the best way those disciplines constructed within the Hellenistic period. He additionally exhibits a extra refined knowing of those fields than Aristotle himself, whereas closing a staunch defender of Aristotle's emphasis on which means instead of Stoics quandary with verbal formula. In his remark at the ultimate bankruptcy of ebook 1 Alexander deals a radical dialogue of Aristotle's contrast among denying that whatever is, for instance, white and announcing that it's non-white.

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A n d t r u t h applies i n one way to the first premiss, i n another to the second; it applies to the first ['Sickness holds of no health'] because 43 30 44 35 354,1 5 Translation 41 sickness has been taken, to the second ['Sickness holds of every h u m a n being'] because being sick has been. If being healthy is predi cated of what is sick, the proposition is contingent negative a n d not necessary, a n d so is the conclusion, since it is possible that being healthy holds of no h u m a n being; but i f h e a l t h is predicated the conclusion w i l l also be necessary negative, since by necessity no h u m a n being is health.

For they are misled because they assent to what is indeterminate as u n i v e r s a l as i f there were no difference between t a k i n g a premiss as u n i v e r s a l a n d t a k i n g it as indeterminate. 25 30 35 40 Chapter 34 353,1 5 41 47b40-48al5 Frequently deception because the terms i n a premiss are not set out well, [for example, i f A is health, B sickness, C h u m a n being. It is true to say that it is possible that A holds of no B (since h e a l t h holds of no sickness), and again that B holds of a l l C (since every h u m a n being is subject to sickness).

However, this has not been proved syllogistically, but certain premisses are missing for producing a syllogism; that is, what ought to be assumed is not assumed, but what is assumed is equivalent to premisses from w h i c h something could be proved syllogistically, but something has a l s o been omitted. There w i l l be a syllogism i f the assumptions are transformed into their equivalents a n d what is left out is added. F o r 'If a non-substance is done away w i t h , a substance is not done away w i t h ' is equivalent to its converse, ' A substance is done away w i t h by a substance', a n d this is equivalent to ' W h a t does away w i t h a sub stance w h e n it is done away w i t h is a substance'; for i f a substance is done away w i t h w h e n something is done away w i t h that t h i n g is a substance.

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