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ARISTOTLE'S ORGANON.

[CHAP. I.

2. Quantity.

or as to quantity, as the size which any one has; thus he is said to have the size of three or four cubits; 3. Investiture.
4. In a part.
5. As to a part.
6. In measure.or as things about the body, as a garment or a tunic;^[1] or as in a part, as a ring in the hand; or as a part, as the hand or the foot; or as in a vessel, as a bushel has wheat, or a flagon, wine, for the flagon is said to have^[2] the wine, and the bushel the wheat; all these therefore are said to have, as in a vessel; 7. Possession. or as a possession, for we are said to have a house or land.

A man is also said to have a wife, and the wife a husband, but the mode now mentioned, of "to have," seems the most foreign, 8. Also indirectly or by analogy. for we mean nothing else by having a wife, than that she cohabits with a man; there may perhaps appear to be some other modes of having, but those usually mentioned have nearly all been enumerated.

ON INTERPRETATION.^[3]

Chap. I.—What Interpretation is, which is here discussed: of the Symbols or Exponents of the Passions by the voice—of Nouns and Verbs.

1. Things enumerated enunciated by the voice are symbols of the passions in the soul. We must first determine what a noun, and what a verb, are; next, what are negation, affirmation, enunciation, and a sentence.

Those things therefore which are in the voice,

↑ This is Shakspearian usage also. Sometimes this form is applied generally to condition or estate, and even attire, and manner. See Winter's Tale, iv. 3. The next are in the sense of "holding," again.
↑ More properly χωρεῖν. It is evident throughout this chapter, that the elliptical modes in which we employ "have" as auxiliary verb are endless, and in the use of it, the assimilation of the English to the Greek is peculiar. Sometimes a very decided verb is omitted, and the auxiliary made to stand alone; thus in K. Henry VIII. act ii. sc. 2,

——"All the clerks,
I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms,
Have their free voices"——for "have sent" their free voices.

For the Aristotelian usages of the word, compare Metaph. lib. iv. c. 23.
↑ Having discussed in the Categories the doctrine of simple terms, Aristotle, in the following treatise, proceeds to the discussion of Proposi-

[1] This is Shakspearian usage also. Sometimes this form is applied generally to condition or estate, and even attire, and manner. See Winter's Tale, iv. 3. The next are in the sense of "holding," again.

[2] More properly χωρεῖν. It is evident throughout this chapter, that the elliptical modes in which we employ "have" as auxiliary verb are endless, and in the use of it, the assimilation of the English to the Greek is peculiar. Sometimes a very decided verb is omitted, and the auxiliary made to stand alone; thus in K. Henry VIII. act ii. sc. 2,

——"All the clerks,
I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms,
Have their free voices"——for "have sent" their free voices.

For the Aristotelian usages of the word, compare Metaph. lib. iv. c. 23.

[p46-3] Having discussed in the Categories the doctrine of simple terms, Aristotle, in the following treatise, proceeds to the discussion of Proposi-

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