Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the text
- List of abbreviations of titles of Aristotle's works
- Introduction
- Part I BEARERS OF TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD
- Part II ‘EMPTY’ TERMS
- Part III TRUTH AND TIME
- Appendix 1 Metaph. Θ 10, 1051b1: the text
- Appendix 2 Metaph. Θ 10, 1051b2–3: the text
- Appendix 3 Int. 7, 17b16–18: the text
- Appendix 4 The two-place relations in Aristotle's definition of truth
- Appendix 5 Aristotle's theory of truth for predicative assertions: formal presentation
- Appendix 6 The failure of bivalence for future-tense assertions: formal presentation
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of passages
Appendix 3 - Int. 7, 17b16–18: the text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the text
- List of abbreviations of titles of Aristotle's works
- Introduction
- Part I BEARERS OF TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD
- Part II ‘EMPTY’ TERMS
- Part III TRUTH AND TIME
- Appendix 1 Metaph. Θ 10, 1051b1: the text
- Appendix 2 Metaph. Θ 10, 1051b2–3: the text
- Appendix 3 Int. 7, 17b16–18: the text
- Appendix 4 The two-place relations in Aristotle's definition of truth
- Appendix 5 Aristotle's theory of truth for predicative assertions: formal presentation
- Appendix 6 The failure of bivalence for future-tense assertions: formal presentation
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
- Index of passages
Summary
The evidence. At 17b16–20 Aristotle discusses contradictory pairs where one member is a universal predicative assertion. Here is the text handed down by the main manuscripts and printed by the majority of recent editors (Bekker, Waitz, Dübner, Cooke, Minio-Paluello, and Zadro):
T 60 ἀντικεῖσθαι μὲν οὖν κατάφασιν ἀπο-17b 16
φάσει λέγω ἀντιφατικῶς τὴν τὸ καθόλου σημαίνουσαν τῷ
αὐτῷ ὅτι οὐ καθόλου, οἷον πᾶς ἄνθρωπος λευκός-οὐ πᾶς
ἄνθρωπος λευκός, οὐδεὶς ἄνθρωπος λευκός-ἔστι τις ἄνθρω-
πος λευκός. 20
Ammonius (in Int. 109, 24–5) reports that according to Porphyry at 17b17 some manuscripts instead of ‘ἀντιφατικῶς’ read ‘ἀποφαντικῶς’ (some manuscripts of Ammonius have ‘ἀποφατικῶς’, the reading we find also in some manuscripts of de Interpretatione, e.g. in Laur. 72, 17). In n ‘τῷ’ (17b17) is added above the line. Bekker claims that at 17b17–18 B reads ‘τὴν τὸ καθόλου σημαίνουσαν τῇ τὸ οὐ καθόλου’, but he is wrong: B's reading is the same as that of the other main manuscripts. (Was this reading attested in some other manuscript?) At 17b18 Laur. 72, 4 omits the first ‘οὐ’. In Vat. Palat. Gr. 74 a later hand added ‘τῇ τὸ αὐτὸ’ above ‘τῷ αὐτῷ’.
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- Aristotle on Truth , pp. 239 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004