An Investigation of Tripartite or Two-Part Nature of Aristotle’s Analysis of Categorical Propositio

The main goal in this article is investigating and explaining Aristotle’s two-part or tripartite analysis of attributive proposition and reviewing some of the opinions and views in this regard. In this article, we have tried to adduce Aristotle’s works to show that firstly, although in Aristotle’s view, the linguistic analysis of attributive proposition can be tow-part or tripartite, in logical analysis, the attributive proposition is always composed of two min parts, i.e. noun (subject) and verb (predicate), and the relation thereof is not considered an independent part due to being included in the meaning of the verb (predicate); and accordingly, attributing the tripartite analysis of attributive proposition to Aristotle as a logical analysis is wrong. Secondly, unlike some views and opinions, we do not find two different analysis of attributive proposition in Aristotle’s logical works, and the basis for his discussions on ‘analogy’ in his later works on logic (early analyses) is the very two-part analysis put forward by him in his early logical work (regarding clause). The main method in this study is referring to the texts of Aristotle’s words and – where necessary – to Aristotle’s interpreters and his followers or critics, scrutinizing those words, and analyzing, inferring and concluding based on them.