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composition and division of words, as symbols.selves resemble conception, without composition and division, as "man," or "white," when something is not added, for as yet it is neither true nor false, an instance of which is that the word τραγέλαφος^[1] signifies something indeed, but not yet any thing true or false, unless to be, or not to be, is added, either simply, or according to time.

Chap. II.—Of the Noun and its Case.

1. Definition of the noun—its parts not seperately significant—distinction between simple and composite. A noun therefore is a sound significant^[2] by compact without time, of which no part is separately significant; thus in the noun κάλλιππος, the ἵππος signifies nothing by itself, as it does in the sentence καλὸς ἵππος; neither does it happen with simple nouns as it does with composite, for in the former there is by no means the part significant, but in the latter a part would be, yet signifies nothing separately, as in the word ἐπακτροκέλης,^[3] 2. ex instituto, conf. c. 4. the κέλης signifies nothing by itself. But it is according to compact,^[4] because naturally there is no noun; but when it

not touch, in all cases, its subtlety. On the distinction between σημεῑον and ὁμοιώμα, see Waitz, vol. i. 324. It will be remembered that the legitimate office of logic is not establishment of the truth or falsehood of the subject matter, except in so far as that truth or falsehood results from certain relations of original data according to fixed rules. (Vide Whately, Hill, Huyshe.) It is needless to quote the definition given by Aldrich of Proposition here.

1. That is, an animal partly a goat and partly a stag. Compare with this and the following capters, ch. xx. of the Poetics.
2. Φωνὴ σημανιτκή, called by Aldrich vox, by Boethius and Petrus Hispanus, vox, significativa ad placitum. Logical nouns are equivalent to simple terms, or categorems, in opposition to syncategorems, whic are not, per se, significative. Here Aristotle mentions the noun and the verb: but (ch. x.. Poetics) he elsewhere adds the conjunction and article (φωναὶ ἄσημοι). Cf. Harris Hermes, ch. iii.; also Hill's Logic.
3. A piratical ship. The word is a vox complexa—φωνὴ, συμεπεπλεγμένη, a compound word, whereof each part has a meaning in composition, φυνὴ ἁπλῆ, where the parts have no meaning. Vide Sanderson's Logic.
4. Primo quidem declarat conceptum deinde supponit pro re. Aldrich. When Aristotle makes the assertion in the text, he does not dissent from that of Socrates in the Cratylus; but whilst he denies the subsisence of names from nature, an opinion adopted by Heraclitus, he shows in his Physical Auscultation, and various other places, that names accord with things. In this very treatise the name of "an indefinite noun," or of "contradic-