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No problem for Aristotle's subject and predicate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Guy Politzer
Affiliation:
Psychologie Cognitive, Université de Paris VIII, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 93526 Saint-Denis, France politzer@univ-paris8.fr

Abstract

It is argued that, in the traditional subject-predicate sentence, two interpretations of the subject term coexist, one intensional and the other extensional, which explains the superficial difference between the traditional S-P relation and the predication of predicate logic. Data from psychological studies of syllogistic reasoning support the view that the contrast between predicate and argument is carried over to the traditional S-P sentence.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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