Note 54 — Chapter VII · ANALYTICA POSTERIORA I.

Analyt. Post. I. xviii. p. 81, a. 38-b. 9. In this important chapter (the doctrines of which are more fully expanded in the last chapter of the Second Book of the Analyt. Post.), the text of Waitz does not fully agree with that of Julius Pacius. In Firmin Didot’s edition the text is the same as in Waitz; but his Latin translation remains adapted to that of Julius Pacius. Waitz gives the substance of the chapter as follows (ad Organ. II. p. 347):— “Universales propositiones omnes inductione comparantur, quum etiam in iis, quæ a sensibus maxime aliena videntur et quæ, ut mathematica (τὰ ἐξ ἀφαιρέσεως), cogitatione separantur à materia quacum conjuncta sunt, inductione probentur ea quæ de genero (e.g., de linea vel de corpore mathematico), ad quod demonstratio pertineat, prædicentur καθ’ αὑτά et cum ejus natura conjuncta sint. Inductio autem iis nititur quæ sensibus percipiuntur; nam res singulares sentiuntur, scientia vero rerum singularium non datur sine inductione, non datur inductio sine sensu.”