Authors/Aristotle/priora/Liber 1/C39

Chapter 39

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	(PL 64 0679D) CAPUT XXXIX. Pro debita resolutione praecepta.	39
49b3 Δεῖ δὲ καὶ μεταλαμβάνειν ἃ τὸ αὐτὸ δύναται, ὀνόματα ἀντ᾽ ὀνομάτων καὶ λόγους ἀντὶ λόγων καὶ ὄνομα καὶ λόγον, καὶ ἀεὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ λόγου τοὔνομα λαμβάνειν· ῥάιων γὰρ ἡ τῶν ὅρων ἔκθεσις. οἷον εἰ μηδὲν διαφέρει εἰπεῖν τὸ ὑποληπτὸν τοῦ δοξαστοῦ μὴ εἶναι γένος ἢ μὴ εἶναι ὅπερ ὑποληπτόν τι τὸ δοξαστόν (ταὐτὸν γὰρ τὸ σημαινόμενον), ἀντὶ τοῦ λόγου τοῦ λεχθέντος τὸ ὑποληπτὸν καὶ τὸ δοξαστὸν ὅρους θετέον.	(0680A) Oportet autem accipere quae idem possunt nomina pro nominibus, et orationes pro orationibus, et nomen et orationem et semper pro oratione nomen suscipere, facilior est enim terminorum expositio, ut si nil differt dicere suspicabile opinabilis non esse genus, aut non esse idem quiddam suspicabile, quod opinabile, nam si idem est quod significatur, pro oratione dicta, suspicabile et opinabile terminos ponendum.	We ought also to exchange terms which have the same value, word for word, and phrase for phrase, and word and phrase, and always take a word in preference to a phrase: for thus the setting out of the terms will be easier. For example if it makes no difference whether we say that the supposable is not the genus of the opinable or that the opinable is not identical with a particular kind of supposable (for what is meant is the same in both statements), it is better to take as the terms the supposable and the opinable in preference to the phrase suggested.