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| | Aristotle's Logic |
 | | The force of the qualification "because of their being so" has sometimes been seen as ruling out arguments in which the conclusion is not ‘relevant’ to the premises, e.g., arguments in which the premises are inconsistent, arguments with conclusions that would follow from any premises whatsoever, or arguments with superfluous premises. |
 | | The middle term must be either subject or predicate of each premise, and this can occur in three ways: the middle term can be the subject of one premise and the predicate of the other, the predicate of both premises, or the subject of both premises. |
 | | First, he argues that there is, in a way, a science that takes being as its genus (his name for it is "first philosophy"). |
| plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-logic (11035 words) |
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