DE INTERPRETATIONE

Aristotle's work '''De Interpretatione''' (the Latin title by which it is usually known) or '''On Interpretation''' (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or ''Peri Hermeneias'') is one of the earliest extant philosophical works in the Western tradition to treat the relationship between linguistics and logic in something that approaches a comprehensive, explicit, and formal way. The contemporary philosophical discipline of hermeneutics borrows a little from this fountainhead, but more specifically turns to the question of interpreting texts.
The work begins by analyzing simple ''categoric'' propositions, and draws a series of basic conclusions on the routine issues of classifying and defining basic linguistic forms, such as ''simple terms'' and ''propositions'', nouns and verbs, negation, the ''quantity'' of simple propositions (primitive roots of the quantifiers in modern symbolic logic), investigations on the ''excluded middle'' (what to Aristotle isn't applicable to future tense propositions — Problem of the futures contingents), and on ''modal propositions''.
The first five or six chapters deal with names and words of language, the succeeding six chapters with propositions and simple propositions, including the topics of negation and quantity. The last three chapters deal with modalities.
''De Interpretatione'' is (the second) part of ''Organon'', Aristotle's collected works on logic.

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★ Hermeneutics

★ Interpretation

★ Semeiotic

★ Semiosis

★ Semiotics

★ Sign

★ Sign relation

External links

★ Text of ''On Interpretation'', as translated by E. M. Edghill

★ Sea Battle Hub, a tutorial introduction to the discussion of the truth status of future events from 'De Interpretatione 9'.

★ Logic Museum translation of Boethius' Latin version of ''De Interpretatione''.