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Interpretations:
1. The cause of the truth of Simmias exceeds Socrates is not
the nature of Simmias (or the form of being Simmias, if
there is something like that).
2. Distinction between to be (something) (esti) and to have
(to happen to have) something (ekhei).
Traditional interpretation: substantial and accidental
(necessary and contingent) predication.
Exclusion of opposites.
Answer to an anonymous interlocutor, with reference to the
circularity argument:
Aristotle
Organon: The first (collection of) logical treatise(s)
Traditional order:
Categories theory of concepts
De interpretatione propositions
Analytica Priora syllogisms
An. Postera - demonstrative syllogism
Topica dialectic sylls
Sophistici Elenchi eristic sylls
Development theory:
Cat. early, platonistic work
Top., Soph. Elench. handbook of dialecitcs, logical theory is not
separated yet.
De Int., An. Post. B: beginnings of the mature logic. Letters as (term)
variables are used now, but not in a clear and consequent way.
An. Pr., An. Post A: Aristotles mature logic (and theory of science).
Problems:
Mutual cross-references
A. repeats the De Int. theory of logical quadrat in An. Pr. in a clear
simplified form.
Two dichotomies:
Be/not be in a subject: dependent/independent being
(accident/substance)
Said/not said of a subject: universal/particular
Cat. 5:
The units, the things that may be called one are the primary
substancess.
The problem of change is solved by the theory of actual and