Authors/Aristotle/priora/Liber 1/C43

Chapter 43

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50a11 Τούς τε πρὸς ὁρισμὸν τῶν λόγων, ὅσοι πρὸς ἕν τι τυγχάνουσι διειλεγμένοι τῶν ἐν τῶι ὅρωι, πρὸς ὁ διείλεκται θετέον ὅρον, καὶ οὐ τὸν ἅπαντα λόγον· ἧττον γὰρ συμβήσεται ταράττεσθαι διὰ τὸ μῆκος, οἷον εἰ τὸ ὕδωρ ἔδειξεν ὅτι ὑγρὸν ποτόν, τὸ ποτὸν καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ ὅρους θετέον.	(0681A) Et ad definitiones orationum quaecunque ad unum quiddam sunt argumentatae in eorum quae insunt termino, ad quod argumentatum est ponendum terminum, et non totam orationem, minus enim contingit perturbari propter longitudinem, ut si quis aquam ostendit quoniam est humidus potus, potum et aquam terminos ponendum.	In reference to those arguments aiming at a definition which have been directed to prove some part of the definition, we must take as a term the point to which the argument has been directed, not the whole definition: for so we shall be less likely to be disturbed by the length of the term: e.g. if a man proves that water is a drinkable liquid, we must take as terms drinkable and water.