All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from pre-existent knowledge
If this is so, and demonstration is a sort of teaching and learning, then demonstration too is assumed from pre-existent knowledge, namely from common…
Category Logic
How likeness should be considered in things
Likeness should be considered upon things that belong to different genera, that is, as one thing is to some one thing, so is another…
What and out of which a predication according to nature is
Of things some are universal, others particular. I call universal that which is by its nature predicated of many subjects, and particular that into…
The various ways a falsehood is spoken of
Falsehood is spoken of in one sense as a thing which is false, and that in two ways: either because it is not or…
Τhe various ways in which a thing is called the same
First of all we must distinguish the number of ways the term “the same” is spoken of. It may seem, in general terms, that…
The species of syllogism
A syllogism then is a discourse (cohesion) in which, certain things being laid down, something different from these necessarily comes about through them.
The difference between knowledge and belief
Knowledge differs from belief in that the one is a conception which is invariable and always the same while the other is a conception…
Whether statement and opinion are changeable or not
One might raise the question whether statement and opinion are changeable or not; for it seems that the same statement is both true and…
The necessary and the possible
One might raise the question whether “possible to be” follows from “necessary to be”. For if not, the contradictory will follow, “not possible to…
Homonymous, synonymous, polyonymous, heteronymous, paronymous
When things have only a name in common and the definition of being which corresponds to the name is different, they are called homonymous.…
