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Theres an opposition between consistency/coherence and particularity or not-necessarily-allness, but even those who emphasize the idea every man is wise/not every man is wise have to refer to "every" and "man", where there is its own set of statements Man is wise/No man is wise, which in turn have to refer to "every" of something. V mysterious? The opposition is: [every/not every]/[this/not this], it comes in pairs
— Jun 23, 2023 03:23AM
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For Aristotle, the statement that good is bad is less wrong than the statement that good is not good, since the former holds only accidentally, whereas the latter is wrong about it as it is in itself
— Jun 23, 2023 03:25PM
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Does possibility follow from necessity? If no, what is necessary is not possible to be or possible not to be, since possibility has to be negated in the follow-up. Discussion of capabilities(such as of being) follows: Possibility applies to changeable becomings only, while actuality admits of being. So, for necessary to be possible there has to be a capability for being, and not just becoming. ahaha
— Jun 23, 2023 02:59PM
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"Here "to be" serves as subject while "to be possible" and "to be admissible are additions-these determining the possible and not possible in the case of "to be", just as in the previous cases "to be" and "not to be" determine the true"
When being becomes subject, it is determined in terms of modality. Also how about statements like "It is possible/necessary/whatever that "Moon is in the sky" is a true statement".
— Jun 23, 2023 11:46AM
When being becomes subject, it is determined in terms of modality. Also how about statements like "It is possible/necessary/whatever that "Moon is in the sky" is a true statement".
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modal sentences can take subjects like "a Man shall be late", the bare form of modality doesn't require anything else besides a grammatical one and can contain the proper sentence as an expression of whole state of affairs, where substance is defined. Like "it is possible that a man shall be late/is walking". In this sense it lies always above the "this". (in finnish you can also just say: IS possible that..!)
— Jun 23, 2023 11:30AM
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Modality of being has a different form of contradiction, different semantics than plain being: man is walking --> man is not walking rather than not-man is walking, but: it is possible to be --> it is impossible to be, rather than possible not to be. It seems modality creates a pretty rash inversion of normal semantics even in unpredictable ways. Here substance is taken up by mere modification of being.
— Jun 23, 2023 11:16AM
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"It is not true to say that what is not, since it is thought about, is something that is; for what is thought about it is not that it is, but that it is not"
— Jun 23, 2023 07:40AM
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"For example, Homer is something (say, a poet). Does it follow that he is
? No, for the "is" is predicated accidentally of Homer; for it is because he is a poet, not in its own right, that the "is" is predicated of Homer"
— Jun 23, 2023 07:39AM
? No, for the "is" is predicated accidentally of Homer; for it is because he is a poet, not in its own right, that the "is" is predicated of Homer"
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Every not-man does not recover vs a not-man does not recover...Negation when expressing universality of some subject turns out to express particularity rather than universal negation. Whereas: a man recovers - a not-man recovers, negation introduces the universality.
— Jun 23, 2023 02:54AM
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A statement, affirmation as well as negation, requires a verb, and verb signifies time. Compare this to time in "Categories" and the conclusions arising from it.
— Jun 23, 2023 02:19AM
