PHL 3305 Lecture 16

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For Next Time

Read LT Ch. 7–9

Opposition

1. co-relatives (complementary)
2. contraries (e.g, white and black)
3. affirmation and negation, contradictories (e.g., white and not white)
4. privation and possession (e.g., sight and blindness)
   • subject is naturally supposed to have something

Prior, Simultaneous, Posterior

1. in time
2. in sequence
3. in order of knowledge (e.g., algebra is prior to calculus)
4. cause and effect (this type is uniquely interdependent; can't have effect without cause nor cause without effect)

Motion and Changes

1. movement from place to place: local motion
2. change of quality: increase / decrease
3. change of substance: generation / corruption

Ch. 4-5 Exercise B

	Mount Everest	Alexander of Macedon
quantity	8,848 m	1
relation	taller than Mt. Fuji	son of his father
quality	rocky	"the great"
place	Nepal / Tibet	Macedonia, Greece
time	now	back then
acting	—	killing
being acted upon	being climbed	entombed
position	"standing"	reclined
condition	"enrobed with a blanket of snow"	armed