On Interpretation

The De interpretatione, like the Prior Analytics, deals mainly with general propositions beginning with Every, No, or Some. But its main concern is not to link these propositions to each other in syllogisms but to explore the relations of compatibility and incompatibility between them. Every swan…

De interpretatione (On Interpretation), which includes a statement of Aristotle’s semantics, along with a study of the structure of certain basic kinds of propositions and their interrelations. Prior Analytics (two books), containing the theory of syllogistic (described below). Posterior Analytics (two books), presenting Aristotle’s theory of “scientific…

…had raised this question in De interpretatione, chapter 9), (2) whether a future contingent event can be known in advance, and (3) whether God (who, the tradition says, cannot be acted upon causally) can know future contingent events. All these issues link logical modality with time. Thus, Peter Aureoli (c.…

…experiences of the mind” (On Interpretation). Such an attitude passed into Latin theory and thence into medieval doctrine. Medieval grammarians envisaged three stages in the speaking process: things in the world exhibit properties; these properties are understood by the minds of humans; and, in the manner in which they…