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Aristotle on Definition Philosophia Antiqua A Series of Studies on Ancient Philosophy PreviousEditors J.H. Waszink† W.J. Verdenius† J.C.M. Van Winden Editedby K.A. Algra F.A.J. De Haas J. Mansfeld C.J. Rowe D.T. Runia Ch. Wildberg VOLUME109 Aristotle on Definition By Marguerite Deslauriers LEIDEN•BOSTON 2007 Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. ISSN: 0079-1687 ISBN:9789004156692 Copyright2007byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishers,MartinusNijhoffPublishersandVSP. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. printedinthenetherlands In memoriam Jean-Jacques Deslauriers Ste. Marguerite, 1914 – Montréal, 1998 CONTENTS Acknowledgements .................................................... ix Introduction............................................................ 1 ChapterOne:AristotleonDivision .................................. 11 Platooncollectionanddivision.................................... 15 Aristotleoncollectionanddivision ................................ 18 Whatistheobjectofdefinitionbydivision?....................... 33 Problems ............................................................ 39 ChapterTwo:TheFourTypesofDefinition......................... 43 Twoobjectsofdefinition ........................................... 48 Whatisittohave somethingelseasanaition?..................... 55 Simpleobjectsandimmediatedefinitions ......................... 66 Conclusion .......................................................... 79 ChapterThree:DefinitionsandAitia................................. 81 Aitia andthestructure ofsyllogisticandimmediate definitions... 85 Whyandhowdefinitionswithaitia arenecessary.................102 Conclusion ..........................................................111 ChapterFour:DefinitionanditsObjectintheMetaphysics..........113 Theproblemofcompoundsandcoupleditems...................117 Theunityofthedefinableformandofthedefinition ............129 Matterinthedefinableform.......................................138 Definitionsanddefinableessencesasuniversals...................157 Conclusion ..........................................................176 viii contents ChapterFive:StatingtheEssenceintheTopics ......................179 QuestionsfromtheMetaphysics andthePosteriorAnalytics..........179 CantheTopics concernmetaphysicsorscience? ..................182 TheTopics anddefinition...........................................187 StatingtheessenceintheTopics....................................189 HowtheTopics answersthequestions..............................206 Twoproblems.......................................................208 Conclusion.............................................................211 Bibliography ...........................................................213 IndexLocorum ........................................................219 GeneralIndex .........................................................225 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am very grateful to John Rist and Father Joseph Owens, for their help in the early stages of work on this book. Vianney Décarie, Mary J. Norton and David Fate Norton offered me models of scholarship as well as friendship. For instructive philosophical conversations I wish to thank Calvin Normore, Brad Inwood, Lloyd Gerson, Eric Lewis, Stephen Menn, Mary Louise Gill, and Jim Hankinson. I learned a lot fromaseminarofferedatKing’s College,UniversityofLondonbyTad Brennan and Mary Margaret McCabe in 1993, and from the students in a seminar I offered in 1997 at McGill University. Rebekah Johnston read a draft of the book, and offered astute comments that helped me in revising it. An earlier version of Chapter One was published in Ancient Philosophy in 1991; an earlier version of Chapter Two appeared in Apeiron in 1990. I am grateful to the editors and the referees of those journals for their advice. I wish to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a grant that allowed me tocompletethe book,and McGillUniversityforasabbatical leave that provided the time. Julien Villeneuve and Florentien Verhage assisted in the preparation of the manuscript, for which I thank them both. I am most grateful to Eric Lewis for his cooking, which helped to keep body andsoultogetherwhileIthoughtaboutAristotle’slogic. Paris October,2006
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