Note 68 — Chapter VIII · ANALYTICA POSTERIORA II.

Analyt. Post. II. xix. p. 100, a. 14: ὃ δ’ ἐλέχθη μὲν πάλαι, οὐ σαφῶς δὲ ἐλέχθη, πάλιν εἴπωμεν.

Waitz supposes that Aristotle here refers to a passage in the first book of the Analytica Posteriora, c. xxxi. p. 87, b. 30. M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire thinks (p. 290) that reference is intended to an earlier sentence of this same chapter. Neither of these suppositions seems to suit (least of all the last) with the meaning of πάλαι. But whichever he meant, Aristotle has not done much to clear up what was obscure in the antecedent statements.