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]