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Headword: Δυσκολαίνειν
Adler number: delta,1649
Translated headword: to quibble
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Aristotle says:[1] for he who through inappropriate answers ruins and prevents the syllogism from being realized is quibbling. Quibbling is an answer contrary to logical answers that ruins the syllogism.
Greek Original:
Δυσκολαίνειν: λέγει Ἀριστοτέλης: δυσκολαίνει γὰρ ὁ μὴ διὰ προσηκουσῶν ἀποκρίσεων φθείρων καὶ κωλύων γίνεσθαι συλλογισμόν. δυσκολία δέ ἐστιν ἀπόκρισις παρὰ τὰς διαλεκτικὰς ἀποκρίσεις συλλογισμοῦ φθαρτική.
Note:
[1] More exactly, Alexander of Aphrodisias. Boiled down from his commentary on Aristotle’s Topica, 558.9-12 and 559.5-6 Wallies (on Topica 160b3) For this verb see LSJ entry at web address 1. For syllogisms see sigma 1345, sigma 1347.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: Oliver Phillips on 5 October 2001@12:49:34.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (simplified link) on 5 October 2001@15:05:39.
Catharine Roth (cosmetic) on 5 October 2001@15:08:00.
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; cosmetics) on 18 October 2003@08:39:05.
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