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  • In a famous passage of the Prior Analytics, he says: "A syllogismos is speech (logos) in which, certain things being supposed, something other than the things supposed results of necessity (ex anankes) because they are so"

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

  • [222] The reader is invited to test the accuracy of what precedes for himself: -- Ammonios men ho Alexandreus, pollen, hos eikos, philoponian kai spouden eisageochos, to dia tessaron hemin kataleloipen euangelion, to kata Matthaion tas homophonous ton loipon euangeliston perikopas p9aratheis, hos ex anankes sumbenai ton tes akolouthias heirmon ton trion diaphtharenai, hoson epi to huphei tes anagnoseos.

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871

  • * Ammonios men ho Alexandreus, pollen, hos eikos, philoponian kai spouden eisageochos, to dia tessaron hemin kataleloipen euangelion, to kata Matthaion tas homophonous ton loipon euangeliston perikopas p9aratheis, hos ex anankes sumbenai ton tes akolouthias heirmon ton trion diaphtharenai, hoson epi to huphei tes anagnoseos: [1487] 1

    The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871

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