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Quotation from Categories by Aristotle
“Thus it is essential that the correlated terms should be exactly designated; if there is a name existing, the statement will be easy; if not, it is doubtless our duty to construct names”
Categories, Part 7, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928)
From the discussion of relatives, after the examples of wing and bird, master and slave: precise naming is a condition of sound reasoning.
Citation: "Thus it is essential that the correlated terms should be exactly designated; if there is a name existing, the statement will be easy; if not, it is doubtless our duty to construct names" — Aristotle, Categories, Part 7, trans. E. M. Edghill (1928). (id aristotle-categories-q6)
