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ARTICLES • Manuscrito 42 (4) • Oct-Dec 2019 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2019.V42N4.DB   copy

ARISTOTLE ON PREDICATION AND DEMONSTRATION* * Many thanks to Lucas Angioni, Marko Malink, and Breno Zuppolini for detailed comments on a previous draft. I also thank Angioni for sharing with me his Portuguese book and article on predication and for translating relevant passages. Finally, I am grateful to Adam Crager for helpful discussion of APo 1.22.

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Abstract

I argue against the standard interpretation of Aristotle’s account of ‘natural predication’ in Posterior Analytics 1.19 and 1.22 according to which only substances can serve as subjects in such predications. I argue that this interpretation cannot accommodate a number of demonstrations Aristotle sanctions. I propose a new interpretation that can accommodate them.

Keywords:
Aristotle; Posterior Analytics; predication; demonstration; underlying subject

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