Τόπος παραγγέλματος διαφέρει
a commonplace differs from an instruction
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝17 Jul 2002Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
An instruction is the commoner and more general and simpler expression, from which a commonplace is derived; for the instruction [is] a beginning of a commonplace just as the commonplace [is] of an attack. Such an instruction is something expressed thus, that it is necessary to begin an attack [on an opponent's contention] on the basis of the opposing coordinate assertions, but it is a commonplace if the contrary position is often opposed to the contrary, or if the contrary turns out to be the contrary to the contrary;1 and again, as is one of the coordinate assertions, so are the rest. For a commonplace is now a kind of protasis derived from the instruction.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τόπος παραγγέλματος διαφέρει. παράγγελμα μὲν εἶναι τὸ κοινότερον καὶ καθολικώτερον καὶ ἁπλούστερον λεγόμενον, ἀφ' οὗ τόπος εὑρίσκεται· ἀρχὴ γὰρ τόπου τὸ παράγγελμα ὥσπερ ὁ τόπος ἐπιχειρήματος. οἷον παράγγελμα μὲν τὸ οὕτως λεγόμενον, ὅτι δεῖ ἐπιχειρεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐναντίων συστοίχων, τόπος δέ, εἰ τὸ ἐναντίον πολλαχῶς τῷ ἐναντίῳ, ἢ εἰ τὸ ἐναντίον τῷ ἐναντίῳ ὑπάρχει τὸ ἐναντίον· καὶ πάλιν, ὡς ἓν τῶν συστοίχων, οὕτω καὶ τὰ λοιπά. ὁ γὰρ τόπος πρότασις ἤδη τις ἀπὸ τοῦ παραγγέλματος γέγονεν.
Betacode
*to/pos paragge/lmatos diafe/rei. para/ggelma me\n ei)=nai to\ koino/teron kai\ kaqolikw/teron kai\ a(plou/steron lego/menon, a)f' ou(= to/pos eu(ri/sketai: a)rxh\ ga\r to/pou to\ para/ggelma w(/sper o( to/pos e)pixeirh/matos. oi(=on para/ggelma me\n to\ ou(/tws lego/menon, o(/ti dei= e)pixeirei=n a)po\ tw=n e)nanti/wn sustoi/xwn, to/pos de/, ei) to\ e)nanti/on pollaxw=s tw=| e)nanti/w|, h)\ ei) to\ e)nanti/on tw=| e)nanti/w| u(pa/rxei to\ e)nanti/on: kai\ pa/lin, w(s e(\n tw=n sustoi/xwn, ou(/tw kai\ ta\ loipa/. o( ga\r to/pos pro/tasis h)/dh tis a)po\ tou= paragge/lmatos ge/gonen.
Notes (1)
- cf. already tau 783. The present entry also derives from Alexander of Aphrodisias (135.3-10), here commenting on Aristotle, Topica 109a34 ff.
See the discussion in Slomkowski [below] 62-67 of aparagge/ma . Marcelo Boeri suggests we defineparagge/ma as 'an instruction or precept based on a previous investigation', thus expressing more explictly Slomkowski's suggested 'investigation-instruction'. - 1For discussion of 'contraries' in this context see Slomkowski 57, 65, 142-3. ↩
References
Paul Slomkowski, Aristotle's Topics, Philosophia Antiqua 74, Leiden-New York-Cologne: Brill, 1997
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