Note 154 — Chapter XXIX · SOPHISTES — POLITIKUS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Aristotel. Metaphys. vii. 1043, b. 25. ὥστε ἡ ἀπορία ἣν οἱ Ἀντισθένειοι καὶ οἱ οὕτως ἀπαίδευτοι ἠπόρουν, ἔχει τινὰ καιρόν, &c.
Compare respecting this paradox or θέσις of Antisthenes, the scholia of Alexander on the passage of Aristotle’s Topica above cited, p. 259, b. 15, in Schol. Bekk.
If Antisthenes admitted only identical predications, of course τὸ ἀντιλόγειν became impossible. I have endeavoured to show, in a previous note on this dialogue, that a misconception (occasionally shared even by Plato) of the function of the copula, lay at the bottom of the Antisthenean theory respecting identical predication. Compare Aristotel. Physic. i. p. 185, b. 28, together with the Scholia of Simplikius, pp. 329-330, ed. Bekk., and Plato, Sophistês, p. 245.