Aristotle's Theory of Definition in Posterior Analytics B. 10

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Aristotle has a project to create a positive relationship between ‘definition’which isclaimed to be the scientific method among his colleagues in the Academy and his new methodcalled ‘demonstration’in his new theory of definition in the Posterior Analytics. He had to solvevarious difficulties concerning with the relationship between the two methods. I argue thatAristotle’s theory of definition in B. 10 presupposes his discussion on definition in the Topics.He has there distinguished ‘the defining-phrase (ὅρος)’by means of which one can gain asuccessful definitional practice from ‘the definition (ὁρισμός)’(I. 5, 101b37-102a5). On thebasis of the defining-phrase which signifies the what a thing was to be,the thing becomes possibleto be defined. Although none of Aristotelian scholars has distinguished one from the other, Ishall argue that it is crucial to distinguish them for a correct understanding of the chapter. I shalloffer alternative solutions from this perspective for the difficulties raised on this chapter byscholars. I argue that Aristotle makes use of the Topics type signifying account to endorse threetypes of definition of what it is. Also some difficulties involved in the Topics type of signifyingaccount are solved by establishing the existence of a relevant thing through demonstration. Thusall of three definitions in his new theory of definition are of the what it is of a thing which exists.In this sense, Aristotle finds a way to establish the demonstration of what it is which waspreviously denied in B. 3-7.
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