[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Le Pesanteur et la Grâce
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 23:56:47 EDT
In a message dated 8/6/2004 11:46:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jlsperanza
writes:
> > "The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the
> > transcendental
> > correlation of contradictories."
E. Holder writes:
>I was totally thinking the same thing.
>What Weil must have in mind is
>Aristotle's Square of Opposition.
>It's the Square-of-Opposition-thing.
Note that Weil seems to be suggesting that 'opposites' are images of
'contradictories'. In traditional logical terminology, you can have your cake
(and
eat it) -- there is such a thing as a 'contradictory opposition', as opposed
to other types (notably contrary, subcontrary, and subaltern) opposition. It's
all in the Square, of course.
Cheers,
JL
"Opposition". OED
Logic. The relation between two propositions which have the same subject
and predicate but differ in quantity or quality, or both.
For contradictory, contrary, subcontrary, and subaltern opposition, see the
first terms.
1599 T. BLUNDEVILLE Art of Logicke 67 (heading)
Of the opposition of Modals.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica I. xxxiii. 128
True Opposition afore-mentioned is either Contrariety or Contradiction.
1788 T Reid Aristotle's Logic i. §3. 11
The four kinds of opposition of terms are explained.
1813-21 J. Bentham Fragm. Ontol. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 203
Subalternation, viz. logical subalternation, opposition, and connexion, or
the relation between cause and effect.
1860 ABP. W. THOMSON Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 5) 148 Opposition of
Judgments is the relation between any two which have the same matter, but a
different form.
1896 J. G. HIBBEN Logic (1905) xv. 128 In the discussion concerning the
opposition of propositions, it was seen that the truth of the particular does
not
imply the truth of the universal.
1962 W. KNEALE & M. KNEALE Devel. Logic (1984) iv. 182 Galen assumes that
disjunctive statements should, properly speaking, involve complete opposition
of
the disjuncts.
1993 A. BROADIE Introd. Medieval Logic vii. 129 Propositions related by
opposition or equipollence have the same categorematic terms in the same
order.
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