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Headword:
Protasis
Adler number: pi,2862
Translated headword: premise, proposition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that a 'premise' is a sentence [composed] out of two terms, [a sentence] demonstrating something about something by what is being signified, either as existent or as nonexistent. A 'mode' [expressed] simply [is] a simple association of two premises having three terms,[1] one of which[2] must be both assumed twice and exist in both [premises].[3] A 'figure' [is] a mode having the middle [term] as follows.[4]
Greek Original:Protasis: hoti protasis esti logos ex horôn duo, tôi sêmainomenôi ti peri tinos dêlôn, ê hôs huparchon ê hôs ouch huparchon. tropos de haplôs duo protaseôn haplê koinônia treis horous echousôn, ex hôn anankê ton hena dis te eilêphthai kai en amphoterais huparchein. schêma de tropos hôdi to meson echôn.
Notes:
This entry, Adler reports, is a marginal addition in ms V. The material owes something to several passages in the Aristotelian commentaries by Alexander of
Aphrodisias. See also
pi 2863.
[1] The major, the minor, and the middle terms in a deductive argument or syllogism (see
Aristotle,
Prior Analytics 25b32ff. and 26a21.
[2] The middle term that, according to the Aristotelian syllogism's theory, should not appear in the conclusion.
[3] The middle term, 'the one which is said in both premises' (
Aristotle,
Prior Analytics 47a38.
[4] In his systematic exposition of syllogistic
Aristotle uses letters indicating terms; according to the figure (
Aristotle describes three), the middle term has a different position (see
Prior Analytics 25b32ff., 26b34ff., 28a10ff.).
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 9 December 2003@17:46:23.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (modified translation, cosmetics) on 9 December 2003@21:42:15.
David Whitehead (added x-ref; cosmetics) on 10 December 2003@02:53:01.
David Whitehead (tweaks to tr; expanded primary note) on 20 October 2013@08:44:07.
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