STEPHANUS'S

ON THE BOOK BY ARISTOTLE

ON INTERPRETATION

COMMENTARY

VIII

PREFACE

Furthermore, there are no abbreviations of word-endings except for the letter o with a mark placed above it, which you may interpret as either os or on original Greek: ος or ον at your discretion. Besides the symbols ⸓ and ·//., there are frequent shorthand signs for "and so forth," "therefore," "is," "human being" original Greek: κτ, πο, πε, ἄνος, and certain others brought over from mathematical books.

Errors in the writing, besides those mentioned by Diels Hermann Diels (1848–1922), a German classical scholar famous for his work on pre-Socratic philosophers, occur quite frequently in the codex, but they are mostly minor and can be corrected with little effort. Likewise, the gaps, of which there are many, can—with a few exceptions—be easily filled based on the meaning of the passage.

Examples of simple propositions original Latin: enuntiatio; in logic, a statement that is either true or false were added to the commentaries by the same hand. Stephanus (following the lead of Ammonius Ammonius Hermiae (c. 440–520 AD), a philosopher and influential commentator on Aristotle whose work often served as a foundation for later scholars like Stephanus) calculates the number of these on pages 39 and 54 of the text. However, the person who compiled these examples did not complete the task; he stopped at those propositions that have a third thing predicatedoriginal Greek: τρίτον προσκατηγορούμενον; this refers to the use of a copula like "is" in a sentence such as "Socrates is just," where "just" is the third element added to the subject and the verb. and those that are modaloriginal Greek: μετὰ τρόπου; refers to modal logic, which deals with degrees of necessity, possibility, and impossibility.. It is clear that this table of examples is not by Stephanus himself from the fact that, in placing the negative...