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[Firegr]

sorry I did not understand things about Aristotle can you answer my questions please thanks



1) What are the contradictory propositions according to Aristotelian logic and what does it mean
contradictory?

2) What does it mean that the substance is a 'sinolo' form-matter?


3) As I describe the concepts of 'power' is 'act' in Aristotelian metaphysics.

[TheVisionofEr]

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What he's thinking is very simple, but it sounds a bit confusing when you try to say it.

Aristotle is saying if we identify something properly we can not truly say it is something else. We would be mistaken or lying. The Greeks don't have two words for mistake and lie, both are "pseudos."

For example, if I identify my hands as "part of my body" I can't then say, these hands are not part of my body. He is thinking about real cases, very simply. I'm really looking at my hands. They are part of my body. That's very clear. So I got the statement right judged by the standard of the way things are or the phenomena. When you really have something right, it's a contradiction or possibly a lie to say otherwise. To say, for instance, these aren't my hands. That could, to repeat, be the mistake of a madman or a distracted and confused drunkard. Either way, a contradiction.

Well, in contrast to Aristotle, the modern logic is much more about making rules, and has very little to do with getting the way things are right.

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Power is a possibility something has, in contradistinction to actual realization of the possibility. A pill might have the power potentially to put someone to sleep. And then it could actually put them to sleep. Dunamis dormitiva. On the other hand, humans may have the possibility to know themselves, but never actualize it.

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Not sure about the other thing. Maybe synthesis?