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Aristotle's Formal Language, Mary Mulhern
Aristotle's Formal Language, Mary Mulhern
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A formal language was invented by Aristotle and used by him in his lectures. This formal language consisted of Greek capital letters used as placeholders, arrayed in the schemata of the three figures recognized as authentically Aristotle’s. In these arrays, arcs under the placeholder letters indicate how the terms are linked in the premisses and conclusion and are read as some inflection of ΰπάρχειν, used by Aristotle as a second- order expression to convey the relation that the terms—not the designata of the terms-of a syllogism have to one another. It is further possible that Aristotle elaborated the three- term …
Sagp Newsletter 2003.4 (April), Anthony Preus
Sagp Newsletter 2003.4 (April), Anthony Preus
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
SAGP at the Central Division 2003