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Modern Definition and Ancient Definition
Clarence Protin
In this essay we examine some aspects of the classical theory of definition as codified in Aristotle's \emph{Topics} and Porphyry's \emph{Eisagogê} in the light of the way definiti…
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Quantifier Reasoning and Multiple Generality in Aristotle and Ancient Logic
Clarence Lewis Protin
Aristotelian logic and its related traditions in antiquity are often held to have been equivalent to monadic predicate logic and as such inadequate to formalize mathematics as well…