TY - JOUR AU - Goldin, Owen PY - 2019/12/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Kath’ hauta predicates and the ‘commensurate universals’ JF - Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia JA - Manuscrito - Rev. Int. Fil. VL - 42 IS - 4 SE - Artigos DO - UR - https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8657675 SP - 44-84 AB - <p><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">What lies behind Aristotle's declarations that an attribute or feature that is demonstrated to belong to a scientific subject is proper to that subject? </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">The answer is found in APo. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">2.8-10, if we understand these chapters as bearing not only on Aristotle theory of definition but also as clarifying the logical structure of demonstration in general. </span><span style="vertical-align: inherit;">If we identify the basic subjects with what has no different cause, and demonstrable attributes (the kath 'hauta sumbebēkota) with what have' a different cause ', the definitions of demonstrable attributes necessarily have the minor terms of the appropriate demonstrations in their definitions , for which reason the subjects and demonstrable attributes are coextensive.</span></span></p> ER -