Protasis in Prior Analytics: Proposition or Premise

Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 17 (1):151 - 2 (2011)
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Abstract

The word pro-tasis is etymologically a near equivalent of pre-mise, pro-position, and ante-cedent—all having positional, relational connotations now totally absent in contemporary use of proposition. Taking protasis for premise, Aristotle’s statement (24a16) A protasis is a sentence affirming or denying something of something…. is not a definition of premise—intensionally: the relational feature is absent. Likewise, it is not a general definition of proposition—extensionally: it is too narrow. This paper explores recent literature on these issues.

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John Corcoran
PhD: Johns Hopkins University; Last affiliation: University at Buffalo
George Boger
Canisius College

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