Πύσματα
inquiries
Translated by Marcelo Boeri9 Dec 2003Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Note] that in the more recent [writers] [it is] customary to call 'inquiries' the questions examining what the proposed thing is; for example, what a human being is. It is a dialectical premise,1 in reply to which the person being questioned is able to answer yes or no.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πύσματα· ὅτι τὰς ἐρωτήσεις, τὰς τί ἐστι τὸ προκείμενον ἐξεταζούσας, πύσματα ἔθος λέγειν τοῖς νεωτέροις. οἷον, τί ἐστιν ἄνθρωπος. διαλεκτικὴ δὲ πρότασίς ἐστι, πρὸς ἣν ὁ ἐρωτώμενος δύναται ἀποκρίνασθαι ναὶ ἢ οὔ.
Betacode
*pu/smata: o(/ti ta\s e)rwth/seis, ta\s ti/ e)sti to\ prokei/menon e)cetazou/sas, pu/smata e)/qos le/gein toi=s newte/rois. oi(=on, ti/ e)stin a)/nqrwpos. dialektikh\ de\ pro/tasi/s e)sti, pro\s h(\n o( e)rwtw/menos du/natai a)pokri/nasqai nai\ h)\ ou)/.
Notes (1)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 539.17-24. The headword is the plural of pi 3254, q.v.
- 1See epsilon 3074, pi 2863, and Aristotle, Topics 101b30-31; 104a8-9. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri