Aristotle's Theory of Predication

ARISTOTLE\'S THEORY OF PREDICATION......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Preface: An Aristotelian Theory of Predication......Page 12
Notation and Conventions......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Statement of the Aspect Theory of Predication......Page 17
Modern Qualms......Page 19
1. The Linguistic Evidence......Page 26
The Relevance of Ordinary Greek Usage......Page 27
The Grammar of Predication......Page 30
The Aspect Theory in Arabic......Page 34
The Meaning of  \'Be\' in Greek......Page 37
The Aspect Theory in Greek......Page 44
Parmenides: Is or Is Not......Page 46
Plato: Not Being Is......Page 52
Types of Predication in the Sophist......Page 55
Plato on the Structure of a Statement......Page 63
Physics I......Page 67
Summary......Page 73
Being is Said in Many Ways......Page 74
Aristotle\'s Lexicon for Being......Page 77
Being Per Accidens......Page 80
Being Per Se......Page 85
An Aporetic Interlude......Page 89
The Alethic Sense......Page 97
The Problematic Sense......Page 99
The Predicates of Matter......Page 102
Conclusions......Page 111
4. The Statement......Page 113
The Nature of a Statement......Page 115
The Bipartite Analysis......Page 117
The Fundamental Form of Statements......Page 121
The Tripartite Analysis......Page 129
The Relation Between the Bipartite and the Tripartite Analyses......Page 131
The Ὑπάρχει Construction......Page 139
Conclusions......Page 145
5. The Categories as Predicates......Page 147
The Ten Categories......Page 148
The Categories as Signs of Beings......Page 152
The Ontological Square......Page 158
Differentiae and Propria......Page 166
Existence and Essence......Page 173
Essence and Definition......Page 177
Accidental and Essential Predication......Page 181
Singular and Universal Predication......Page 187
Comparison with Modern Logic......Page 193
Unnatural Predication......Page 200
Complex Predication......Page 210
Aspects of Aspects......Page 212
7. Negations......Page 214
Indefinite Names and Verbs......Page 215
Denials......Page 222
Simple Denials......Page 224
Metathetic Denials......Page 233
Squares of Opposition......Page 238
Conclusions......Page 241
The Antepredicamental Rule......Page 243
Subalternation......Page 254
Conversion......Page 260
The Syllogism......Page 267
The Fallacy of Accident......Page 271
The Fallacy of Secundum Quid et Simpliciter......Page 275
Conclusions......Page 278
The Aspect Theory......Page 279
The Aspect Theory as an Interpretation of Aristotle......Page 280
A Single Science of \'Is\'......Page 284
Later Developments......Page 286
Brentano......Page 322
Evaluation of the Aspect Theory......Page 325
The Recurrence of the Aspect Theory......Page 331
Bibliography......Page 336
Index......Page 354