Πρότασις
premise, proposition
Translated by Marcelo Boeri9 Dec 2003Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Note] that a 'premise' is a sentence [composed] out of two terms, [a sentence] demonstrating something about something by what is being signified, either as existent or as nonexistent. A 'mode' [expressed] simply [is] a simple association of two premises having three terms,1 one of which2 must be both assumed twice and exist in both [premises].3 A 'figure' [is] a mode having the middle [term] as follows.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πρότασις· ὅτι πρότασις ἐστὶ λόγος ἐξ ὅρων δύο, τῷ σημαινομένῳ τι περί τινος δηλῶν, ἢ ὡς ὑπάρχον ἢ ὡς οὐχ ὑπάρχον. τρόπος δὲ ἁπλῶς δύο προτάσεων ἁπλῆ κοινωνία τρεῖς ὅρους ἐχουσῶν, ἐξ ὧν ἀνάγκη τὸν ἕνα δίς τε εἰλῆφθαι καὶ ἐν ἀμφοτέραις ὑπάρχειν. σχῆμα δὲ τρόπος ὡδὶ τὸ μέσον ἔχων.
Betacode
*pro/tasis: o(/ti pro/tasis e)sti\ lo/gos e)c o(/rwn du/o, tw=| shmainome/nw| ti peri/ tinos dhlw=n, h)\ w(s u(pa/rxon h)\ w(s ou)x u(pa/rxon. tro/pos de\ a(plw=s du/o prota/sewn a(plh= koinwni/a trei=s o(/rous e)xousw=n, e)c w(=n a)na/gkh to\n e(/na di/s te ei)lh=fqai kai\ e)n a)mfote/rais u(pa/rxein. sxh=ma de\ tro/pos w(di\ to\ me/son e)/xwn.
Notes (4)
- This entry, Adler reports, is a marginal addition in ms V. The material owes something to several passages in the Aristotelian commentaries by Alexander of Aphrodisias. See also pi 2863.
- 1The major, the minor, and the middle terms in a deductive argument or syllogism (see Aristotle, Prior Analytics 25b32ff. and 26a21. ↩
- 2The middle term that, according to the Aristotelian syllogism's theory, should not appear in the conclusion. ↩
- 3The middle term, 'the one which is said in both premises' (Aristotle, Prior Analytics 47a38. ↩
- 4In his systematic exposition of syllogistic Aristotle uses letters indicating terms; according to the figure (Aristotle describes three), the middle term has a different position (see Prior Analytics 25b32ff., 26b34ff., 28a10ff.). ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 Oct 2013
- tweaks to tr; expanded primary note — David Whitehead
- added x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation, cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri