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Single Idea 18896

[from 'Prior Analytics' by Aristotle, in 5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form ]

Full Idea

Aristotle often preferred to formulate predications by placing the terms at opposite ends of the sentence and joining them by predicating expressions like 'belongs-to-some' or 'belongs-to-every'.

Gist of Idea

Aristotle places terms at opposite ends, joined by a quantified copula

Source

report of Aristotle (Prior Analytics [c.328 BCE]) by Fred Sommers - Intellectual Autobiography 'Conceptions'

Book Reference

'The Old New Logic', ed/tr. Oderberg,David S. [MIT 2005], p.10


A Reaction

This is Sommers's picture of Aristotle, which led Sommers to develop his modern Term Logic.

Related Ideas

Idea 4730 For Aristotle, the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected a substance-accident structure of reality [Aristotle, by O'Grady]

Idea 18903 Sommers promotes the old idea that negation basically refers to terms [Sommers, by Engelbretsen]