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1 The Prior Analytics theory of propositions
An. Pr. A, ch. 1 (24a10ff) Premise: protasis (= haplé apophansis) Particular: en merei (= ou katholou) Singular: missing. Conclusion (sumperasma) has the same form.

2 Deduction: sullogismos
It means valid inference. Sometimed inference in general, sometimes the special sort of inference investigated in An.Pr. Deduction comes about: genesthai ton sullogismon.

3 Maybe much simpler: „… by adding ‚is’ or ‚is not’”.

4 Definition of syllogism as valid inference in general.
„Results”: sumbainei (follows) Complete syllogisms are the axioms of the system. They are evident by themselves, need no proof.

5 „To be in another as a whole” (en holói einai), „predicated” (katégoreiszthai): new paraphrases for the subject-predicate relation. huparkhei remains as central. This is a semantical definition of the truth of universal affirmative (type a) and universal negative/privative (e) propositions. No explicit mention of particular affirmative (i) and negative (o) propositions. Here we can suppose that the Hermeneutics theory about contradictory pairs remains in force.

6 A2: theory of conversion (antistrephein)
The converse of a premise: change the role of subject and predicate Theorems first: e and i are convertible (i.e. the converse is true as well), a is weakly convertible (i. e. the i proposition with the converted terms follows), o is not convertible. Proof for e-conversion: Indirect proof: 1. Suppose that B belongs to some A (contradictory to the conclusion) 2. Let us take such an A, say C (exemplification [ekthesis]) 3. C is a B, and A belongs to it. [‚C is a B’ and ‚B belongs to C’ are apparently synonymous.] 4. Therefore, A belongs to some B – contradiction. First use of term variables for general proofs. Is C a singular or an universal term?

7 1. It refers to the previous result.
2. Tacitly refers to the De Int. thesis that contraries (‚A belongs to no B’, ‚A belongs to every B’) exclude each other – impossibility. i-conversion: reference to e-conversion again.

8 Refutation of o-conversion by counterexample.
Makes it logic dependent from empirical facts? What was used? Contradictory and contrary pairs (De Int.) The rule of the indirect proof („proof by impossibility”): If a hypothesis leads to a contradiction (impossibility), the negation of it is proved. Existential import: from the thesis that contraries cannot be true together. Two interpretations: Empty terms are excluded altogether. (Łukasiewicz) a-propositions imply the nonemptiness of the subject term.

9 Extension to modal propositions:
„It is necessary for A to belong to some B”, two traditional readings: De dicto: „A belongs to some B” is a necessary truth. De re: „For some B it is necessary to be an A”, i. e., A is a necessary property of some B-s. The i-conversion is at least plausible for the de dicto but not for the de re readings.


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