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The Organon (1); Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle: With the Introduction of Porphyry
The Organon Or Logical Treatises of Aristotle With the Introduction of Porphyry - 1 Author:Aristotle Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: G. Bell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ... more »can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chap. X. -- Of Opposition with the addition of the Copula' Since affirmation signifies something of something, and this is either a noun, or anonymous,2 (i. e. indefinite,) but what is in affirmation must be one and of one thing,3 all affirmation and negation will be either from a Ji,, noun and a verb, or from an indefinite noun and verb. (But what a noun is, and what the anonymous, has been shown before, for I do not reckon " not man " a noun, but an indefinite noun, for an indefinite noun signifies" in a certain respect one thing, just as "is not well" is not a verb, but an indefinite verb.) Still without a verb there is , . , ' . ... Cf. ch 2, and 3. neither an affirmation nor negation, for " is, or "will be," or "was," or "is going to be," and so forth, are verbs, from what has been already laid down, since in addition to something else they signify time. Hence the first affirmation and negation (will be), "man is," "man is not," afterwards " non-man is," " non-man is not." Again, " every man is," " every man is not," " every non-man is," "every non-man is not," and the same reasoning holds in times beyond (the present).4 But when " is," is additionally t This is called oppositio tertii adjacentis, and a proposition is so denominated where the copula is separated from the predicate; otherwise where the two form one word, as " He walks," the proposition is called secundi adjaceutis; hitherto the latter has been treated of, and the copula and predicate considered equivalent to a single verb, as ivkov (De Int. ch. 2j to ivkov ion. I have followed Taylor in fin...« less