Organon (Owen)/On Interpretation

Concise Table of Contents
Chap. 1. What Interpretation is, which is here discussed: of the Symbols or Exponents of the Passions by the voice—of Nouns and Verbs. Chap. 2. Of the Noun and its Case Chap. 3. Of the Verb, its Case, and of those called Verbs generally. Chap. 4. Of the Sentence. Chap. 5. Of Enunciation. Chap. 6. Of Affirmation and Negation. Chap. 7. Of Contraries and Contradictories. Chap. 8. Of Opposition when there is not one Affirmation, nor one Negation. Chap. 9. Of Opposition in contingent Futures. Chap. 10. Of Opposition with the addition of the Copula. Chap. 11. Of the Composition and Division of Propositions. Chap. 12. On Modal Proposition. Chap. 13. Of the Sequences of Modal Propositions. Chap. 14. Of Contrary Propositions.

Table of Contents
Chap. 1. What Interpretation is, which is here discussed: of the Symbols or Exponents of the Passions by the voice—of Nouns and Verbs.
 * 1.1. Things enunciated by the voice are symbols of the passions in the soul.
 * 1.2. Truth and falsehood of enunciation dependent on composition and division of words, as symbols.

Chap. 2. Of the Noun and its Case
 * 2.1. Definition of the noun—its parts not separately significant—distinction between simple and composite.
 * 2.2. Ex instituto, conf. c. 4.
 * 2.3. The indefinite not a noun.
 * 2.4. Cases of the noun differ from the noun in that, being joined to the verb, or copula, they signify neither truth nor falsehood.

Chap. 3. Of the Verb, its Case, and of those called Verbs generally.
 * 3.1. Definition of the verb or.
 * 3.2. A verb joined with negation, or in its tenses out of the present, is not a proper logical verb.
 * 3.3. Infitives properly nouns.
 * 3.4. They are insignificant except in composition.

Chap. 4. Of the Sentence.
 * 4.1. Definition of the sentence—.
 * 4.2. Other kinds of sentence belong to Rhetoric—Logic conversant with the enunciative alone.

Chap. 5. Of Enunciation.
 * 5.1. Divisions of the enunciative sentence-.
 * 5.2. Simple or composite.
 * 5.3. Definition of simple enunciation,.

Chap. 6. Of Affirmation and Negation.
 * 6.1. Distinctive definition of affirmation and negation (.)
 * 6.2. Opposition between affirmative and negative constitutes contradiction . Cf. Cat. x. 1.

Chap. 7. Of Contraries and Contradictories.
 * 7.1. Distinction between the universal ( and the singular.
 * 7.2. Nature of contrariety—
 * 7.3. Of contradiction:.
 * 7.4. Contraries themselves cannot at the same time be true, though their opposites may.
 * 7.5. One negation incident.

Chap. 8. Of Opposition when there is not one Affirmation, nor one Negation.
 * 8.1. What constitutes single affirmation and negation, is the unity of the subject, and of the predicate, without equivocation.

Chap. 9. Of Opposition in contingent Futures.
 * 9.1. In things past affirmation and negation must necessarily be true or false, but otherwise in respect of the future.
 * 9.2. Whatever true affirmation or negation is made of futures excludes casual existence.
 * 9.3. Result of denying the truth of both.
 * 9.4. What absurdity follows from denying the casual.
 * 9.5. Many things have a casual subsistence as to the nature of their affirmation or negation.
 * 9.6. Parallel reasoning as to contradiction, and a difficulty as to the necessary truth or falsehood of contingent futures, solved.

Chap. 10. Of Opposition with the addition of the Copula.
 * 10.1. The parts of enunciation.
 * 10.2. If the copula be added, there will be four enunciations—their subsistence exemplified.
 * 10.3. Four others, with their peculiarity, universals.
 * 10.4. Others with an indefinite subject.
 * 10.5. Consequence of the negative upon the affirmative, and vice versâ
 * 10.6. An indefinite not a legitimate enunciation.
 * 10.7. No difference in affirmation or negation produced by transposition.

Chap. 11. Of the Composition and Division of Propositions.
 * 11.1. One thing cannot be said of many, nor many of one, by one affirmation or negation.
 * 11.2. Exception.
 * 11.3. Disjunctions not to be assumed, as conjunctively true.
 * 11.4. Rules for simple and composite predication.

Chap. 12. On Modal Proposition.
 * 12.1. Of the negations, and the like.
 * 12.2. The possible—
 * 12.3. The and  to be considered as subjects, with which the affirmation and negation is to be connected.

Chap. 13. Of the Sequences of Modal Propositions.
 * 13.1. Proper method of disposing relative consequences.
 * 13.2., its peculiarity, with the reason and proof.
 * 13.3. Solution of a difficulty as to the above, by the distinction between rational and irrational potentiality.
 * 13.4. The ’. Priority.

Chap. 14. Of Contrary Propositions.
 * 14.1. Those opinions are contrary which are of contrary matter, and the propositional contrariety corresponds with the contrariety of opinion.
 * 14.2. Nature of contrariety between affirmation and negation.
 * 14.3. Contraries cannot co-exist.



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