On Interpretation

ARISTOTLE

ON INTERPRETATION

INTERPRETATION

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ARISTOTLE'$ ON INTERPRETATION (GREEK PERI HERMENEIAS) OR DE INTERPRETATIONE (THE
LATIN TITLE) I$ THE SECOND OF ARISTOTLE'S SIX TEXTS ON LOGIC WHICH ARE COLLECTIVELY
KNOWN AS THE ORGANON. ON INTERPRETATION I$ ONE OF THE EARLIEST SURVIVING
PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS IN THE WESTERN TRADITION TO DEAL WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
LANGUAGE AND LOGIC IN A COMPREHENSIVE, EXPLICIT, AND FORMAL WAY. THE WORK BEGINS BY
ANALYZING SIMPLE CATEGORIC PROPOSITIONS, AND DRAWS A SERIES OF BASIC CONCLUSIONS ON
THE ROUTINE ISSUES OF CLASSIFYING AND DEFINING BASIC LINGUISTIC FORMS, SUCH AS SIMPLE
TERMS AND PROPOSITIONS, NOUNS AND VERBS, NEGATION, THE QUANTITY OF SIMPLE
PROPOSITIONS (PRIMITIVE ROOTS OF THE QUANTIFIERS IN MODERN SYMBOLIC LOGIC),
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE EXCLUDED MIDDLE (WHAT TO ARISTOTLE ISN'T APPLICABLE TO FUTURE

TENSE PROPOSITIONS — THE PROBLEM OF FUTURE CONTINGENTS), AND ON MODAL PROPOSITIONS

. THE FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS DEAL WITH THE TERMS THAT FORM PROPOSITIONS. CHAPTERS 6 AND
7 DEAL WITH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE, UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULAR
PROPOSITIONS. THESE RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE BASIS OF THE WELL-KNOWN SQUARE OF
OPPOSITION. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN UNIVERSAL AND PARTICULAR PROPOSITIONS IS THE
BASIS OF MODERN QUANTIFICATION THEORY. THE LAST THREE CHAPTERS DEAL WITH MODALITIES.
CHAPTER 9 I$ FAMOUS FOR THE DISCUSSION OF THE SEA-BATTLE. (IF IT IS TRUE THAT THERE WILL
BE A SEA-BATTLE TOMORROW, THEN IT I$ TRUE TODAY THAT THERE WILL BE A SEA-BATTLE. THUS
A SEA-BATTLE I$ APPARENTLY UNAVOIDABLE, AND THUS NECESSARY). (ADAPTED FROM WIKIPEDIA)

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