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Quotation from On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle

“Nothing existed at all”

Aristotle

On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Sophistical Refutations, Part 34, trans. W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928)

Aristotle's closing claim that, unlike rhetoric, the study of reasoning had no predecessors before his work.

Citation: "Nothing existed at all" — Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations, On Sophistical Refutations, Part 34, trans. W. A. Pickard-Cambridge (Oxford, 1928). (id aristotle-organon-logic-q5)

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