The philosophy of Aristotle
A verb is that which additionally signifies time, no part of it is separately significant. And it is a sign of things said of something else. I say that it additionally signifies time. For example, ‘health’ is a name, but ‘recover’ is a verb. For it additionally signifies that which is holding now. And it is always a sign of things that are in something else, i.e. those which are predicated of a subject. Continue reading “What verb is”
Α name, then, is a sound significant by convention without time, of which no part is separately significant. For in ‘Fairhorse’ the ‘horse’ does not signify anything by itself, as it does in the sentence ‘fair horse’. Continue reading “What name is”
According to what a refutation is and which are the aims of sophists Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations says: First we must consider the aims of those who strive and contend in disputations. These are five in number: refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism, and the fifth element is to make their opponent prate. Continue reading “What a refutation is and the aims of sophists”
Of things that are, some are said of a subject, and are not in a subject, e.g. man is said of a subject, the individual man, but is not in a subject; others are not said of a subject, yet they are in a subject. Continue reading “The difference between a thing said of a subject and a thing in a subject”
With regard to rebutting an accusation, one way is to attempt wherefrom you could dispel the bad impression formed of yourself; for it makes no difference at all whether this impression has been openly expressed or not, so that this forms a general rule. Continue reading “How to deal with an accusation”
There are three things which one must have in order to be credible; for this much is the number of those by which we believe in, save demonstrations. And these are wisdom, virtue and favour. Continue reading “What one must have in order to be credible”
The persuasive means of a rhetorical speech are of three kinds. One party is situated on the moral character of the speaker, another on disposing the hearer accordingly, and a third on the speech itself, in so far as it proves or seems to prove. Continue reading “The persuasive means of a rhetorical speech”
