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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“For every assertion must, as is admitted, be either true or false, whereas expressions which are not in any way composite such as 'man', 'white', 'runs', 'wins', cannot be either true or false”
Categories, Part 4, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
Aristotle locates truth and falsity in statements that combine terms, not in single words; the point prepares for On Interpretation.
Citation: "For every assertion must, as is admitted, be either true or false, whereas expressions which are not in any way composite such as 'man', 'white', 'runs', 'wins', cannot be either true or false" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 4, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q2)
