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Headword: *)ana/lusis
Adler number: alpha,1951
Translated headword: analysis
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning] explanation. For a definition is an analytical statement expressing the definandum precisely and summarily.[1] Analysis [is] the recurrence of types from form to form. For [the verb] a)nalu/ein is said of the application of syllogistic syntheses to single entities and to the premises from which those [entities] have existence. [So], at any rate, according to the meaning of analysis in the Analytics written by Aristotle.

Greek Original:

*)ana/lusis: e)ca/plwsis. o(/ros ga/r e)sti lo/gos kata\ a)na/lusin a)partizo/ntws e)kfero/menos tou= o(ristikou= kai\ kefalaiwdw=s. a)na/lusis, h( e)pi\ sxh/matos e)pi\ sxh=ma tw=n tro/pwn a)naku/klhsis. a)nalu/ein ga\r le/getai to\ tou\s sunqe/tous sullogismou\s a)na/gein ei)s tou\s a(plou=s kai\ ei)s ta\s prota/seis, e)c w(=n au)toi=s to\ ei)=nai. kata\ gou=n to\ shmaino/menon th=s a)nalu/sews *)analutika\ ge/graptai ta\ *)aristote/lous.

Note:

[1] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 42.27-43.1; cf. Diogenes Laertius 7.60. See also alpha 2929, omicron 627.

Keywords: definition; philosophy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 May 2001@13:20:22.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (modified translation; added note) on 29 July 2002@08:38:33.
David Whitehead (betacode and other cosmetics) on 24 February 2012@07:23:09.
David Whitehead on 30 June 2015@08:48:49.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 10 February 2021@01:21:18.

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