A.
Abduction (Apagoge), [202].
Abstract, and Concrete, appellatives not used by Aristotle, [64].
Abstraction, belongs to the Noëtic function, [486], [487], [492].
Absurdum, Reductio ad, see [Reductio].
Accentuation, Fallacy of [385]; rare, [408].
Accidens, Ens per &c., see [Accident], [Ens].
Accidentis Fallacia, [386]; not understood among Aristotle’s scientific contemporaries, [390]; how to solve, [410].
[Accident], Ens by, [60], [424], [561], [593]; modern definition of [62]; an individual, allowed by Aristotle, [63]; no science of, [98]; one of the Predicables, [276]; thesis of, easiest to defend, hardest to upset, [284], [353]; thirty-seven dialectical Loci bearing on, [285] seq.; why no science of, [425], [593], [594]; one, cannot be accident of another, [586]; opposed to the constant and the usual, [594]; Chance, principle or cause of, [594]; see [Concomitants].
Action (Agere), Category, [65], [73].
[Actuality], as opposed to Potentiality, [128], [456], [615] seq.
Adoxa, opposed to Endoxa, [269].
Æon, of the Heaven, [636].
Æther, derivation of the name, [632].
Affirmation, conjunction of predicate with subject, [111]; constituents of, [118]; ἐκ μεταθέσεως (Theophrastus), [122], [169].
Akroamatic books, opposed to Exoteric, [50].
Alcuin, followed Aristotle on Universals, [563].
Alexander of Macedon, taught by Aristotle from boyhood, [5]; came to the throne, and went on his first Persian expedition, [6]; his action towards Athens, [8]; correspondent, protector, patron, of Aristotle at Athens, [7], [8]; later change in his character and alienation from Aristotle, [9]; his order for the recall of exiles throughout Greece, [10]; his death, [7], [12].
Alexandrine, literati, their knowledge of Aristotle, [34], [38], [40], [42].
Aliquid, Ad, see [Relation]; Hoc, or the definite individual, see [Essence].
Alkmæon, his view of the soul, [449].
Ammonius, put Relation above all the Categories, [84]; his opinion on last paragraph of De Interpretatione, [134].
Amphiboly, Fallacy of, [385]; how to solve, [407].
Amyntas, king of Macedon, [2].
Analytica, referred to in Topica, [56]; presuppose contents of Categoriæ and De Interpretatione, [56]; terminology of, differs from that of De Interpretatione, [141]; purpose of, [141].
Analytica Priora, different sections of Book I., [157], [163]; relation of the two books of, [171].
Analytica Posteriora, applies Syllogism to Demonstration, [142], [207]; relation of, to the Metaphysica, [422].
Anaxagoras, doctrine of, inconsistent with Maxim of Contradiction, [429], [592]; disregarded data of experience, [436]; his view of the soul, [449]; Maxim of Excluded Middle defended by Aristotle specially against, [581]; made intelligence dependent on sense, [588]; doctrine of, makes all propositions false, [592]; must yet admit an infinite number of true propositions, [592]; meant by his Unum — Ens Potentiâ, and thus got partial hold of the idea of Matter, [620]; in his doctrine of the Noûs, makes Actuality prior to Potentiality, [623]; declares Good to be the principle as Movent, [628]; called fire Æther, [632]; his reason for the stationariness of the Earth, [649].
Anaximander, his reason for stationariness of the Earth, [650].
Anaximenes, his reason for stationariness of the Earth, [649].
Andronikus of Rhodes, source of our Aristotle, [35]; sorted and corrected the Aristotelian MSS. at Rome, [37], [39]; Peripatetic Scholarch, [39]; difficulties of his task — the result appreciated, [43]; placed theological treatises first, [55]; put Relation above all the Categories, [84].
Animâ, Treatise de, referred to in the De Interpretatione, [109].
Anonymus, his catalogue of Aristotle’s works, compared with that of Diogenes and with the extant works, [29] seq.
Antipater, friend and correspondent of Aristotle, [7], [8]; victor in the Lamian war, occupied Athens, [12]; letter to, from Aristotle at Chalkis, [16]; letter of, in praise of Aristotle, [16]; executor under Aristotle’s Will, [17].
[Antiphasis], pair of contradictory opposites, [111]; rule of, as regards truth and falsity, [112], [113]; made up of one affirmation and one negation corresponding, [113]; does not hold for events particular and future, because of irregularity in the Kosmos, [113] seq.; quaternions exhibiting each two related cases of, [118] seq., [170]; forms of, in Modals, [127]; involves determination of quantity, [135]; not understood before Aristotle, [136]; the two members of, can neither be both true nor both false, argued at length by Aristotle in Metaph. Γ., ii. [586]-92.
Antisthenes, declared contradiction impossible, [136], [137]; allowed definition only of compounds, [611].
Antonius, Marcus, authority for Stoical creed, [654]; on active beneficence, [662].
Apagoge (Abduction), [202].
Apellikon, of Teos, a Peripatetic, bought Aristotle’s MSS., &c., from heirs of Neleus, [36]; exposed them at Athens and had copies taken, [36]; wrote a biography of Aristotle, [37]; library of, composite, [43].
Aplanês, exterior sphere of the Kosmos, [114], [623].
Ἀπόφανσις, Enunciation, name for Proposition in De Interpretatione, [141].
[Appetite], the direct producing cause of movement in animals, [492].
Archytas, made Habere fifth Category, [80].
Arguments, how to find, for different theses, [157].
Arimnestus, brother of Aristotle, [19].
Aristippus, anticipated Epikurus, [654].
Aristomenes, friend of Aristotle, [17].
Aristophanes, of Byzantium, arranged dialogues of Plato, [34]; on the style of Epikurus, [658].
‘Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus,’ work by V. Rose, [32].
[Aristotle], birth and parentage, [1], [2]; opportunities for physiological study, [2]; an orphan in youth, became ward of Proxenus, [8]; discrepant accounts as to his early life, [3]; medical practice, [3]; under Plato at Athens, [4]; went to Atarneus, on Plato’s death, [4]; married Pythias, [5]; driven out to Mitylene, [5]; invited by Philip of Macedon to become tutor to Alexander, [5]; life in Macedon, [5]; re-founded Stageira, [6]; taught in the Nymphæum of Mieza, [6]; returned to Athens, and set up his school in the Lykeium, [7]; lecturing and writing, [7], [25]; correspondence, [7]; relation to Athenian polities, [8]; protected and patronized at Athens by Alexander and Antipater, [8]; in spite of estrangement between him and Alexander, regarded always as unfriendly to Athenian liberty, [9], [10]; his relation to Nikanor, bearer of Alexander’s rescript to the Greek cities, [11]; indicted for impiety in his doctrines and his commemoration of the eunuch Hermeias, [12], [13]; retired to Chalkis, [14]; died there, before he could return to Athens, [15]; wrote a defence against the charge of impiety, [15]; his judgment on Athens and Athenians, [16]; his person, habits, manners, &c., [16]; his second wife, son, and daughter, [17]; last testament, [17]-19; his character as therein exhibited, [19]; reproaches against, [20]; his opposition to Plato misrepresented by Platonists, [20], [21]; a student and teacher of rhetoric, [22]; attacked Isokrates, [24]; assailed by three sets of enemies, [26]; difficulty in determining the Canon of his works as compared with Plato’s, [27]; extant works ascribed to, [27]; ancient authorities for his works, [28]; catalogue and extent of his works, according to Diogenes, [29]; according to Anonymus, [29]; the catalogues compared with each other, and with list of his extant works, [29], [30]; ancient encomiums on his style, [30]; his principal works unknown to Cicero and others, [31], [40]; dialogues and other works of, lost to us, [31]; works in the catalogue are declared by V. Rose not to belong to, [32]; different opinion of E. Heitz, [32]; allowance to be made for diversity of style, subject, &c., in the works of, [33]; works in the catalogue to be held as really composed by, [34]; extant works of, whence derived, [35]; fate of his library and MSS. on his death, till brought to Rome and cared for by Andronikus, [35] seq.; through Andronikus, became known as we know him, [40]; not thus known to the Alexandrine librarians, [42]; so-called Exoteric works of, [44]; his own use of the phrase “exoteric discourses,� [46] seq.; had not two doctrines — the Exoteric and Esoteric, [52]; the order of his extant works uncertain, [54]; his merit in noting equivocation of terms, [57]; not free from fascination by particular numbers, [74]; first made logical analysis of Ens, [97]; first to treat Logic scientifically, [130]; what he did for theory of Proposition, [136], [139]; claimed the theory of Syllogism as his own work, [140], [153], [259], [420]; his expository manner, novel and peculiar, [141]; specialized the meaning of Syllogism, [143]; first to ask if a proposition could be converted, [144]; first used letters as symbols in exposition, [148]; proceeded upon, but modified, Platonic antithesis of Science and Opinion, [207], [264]; specially claimed to be original in his theory of Dialectic, [262], [418]; attended to current opinion, drew up list of proverbs, [272], [440]; started in his philosophy from the common habit of speech, [434], [440]; continued the work of Sokrates, [439], [441]; devised a First Philosophy conformable to the habits of common speech, starting from the definite individual or Hoc Aliquid, [445]; psychology of, must be compared with that of his predecessors, [446]; rejected all previous theories on Soul, [452]; advance made in the Ontology of, [561]; his view of pleasure, [660]; ethical purpose of, [662].
Arithmetic, præcognita required in, [212]; abstracted from material conditions, [234]; simpler, and therefore more accurate, than geometry, [234].
Art, Generation from, [598], [620].
Asklepiads, traditional training of, [2].
Association of Ideas, principles of, [477]; Aristotle’s account of, perplexed by his sharp distinction of Memory and Reminiscence, [478].
Astronomy, the mathematical science most akin to First Philosophy, [626].
Atarneus, Aristotle there, [4].
Attalid kings of Pergamus, Aristotle’s library at Skepsis buried, to be kept hidden from, [36].
Axioms, assumed in Demonstration, [212], [215], [220]; a part of Demonstration, [219]; not always formally enunciated, [221]; those common to all sciences, scrutinized by Dialectic, [221], [575]; and by First Philosophy, [221], [425], [575], [584]; the common, not alone sufficient for Demonstration in the special sciences, [236]; use of the word before, and by, Aristotle, [566], [575], [584].