LessonsSemantic Fallacies: Defects of Matter, Form, and PredicationQuiz

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Another error is substituting what holds accidentally for what holds essentially.

Bi-l-dhāt concerns a predicate considered as belonging to a thing in its own relevant respect. Bi-l-ʿaraḍ concerns something attributed to it through a secondary relation or circumstance.

If a term is used in an essential sense in one premise and through an accidental relation in another, it no longer functions as a uniform middle term. The respective modes of predication cannot simply be merged.

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Taking an accidental feature as essential

Semantic Fallacies: Defects of Matter, Form, and Predication

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Another error is substituting what holds accidentally for what holds essentially.

Bi-l-dhāt concerns a predicate considered as belonging to a thing in its own relevant respect. Bi-l-ʿaraḍ concerns something attributed to it through a secondary relation or circumstance.

If a term is used in an essential sense in one premise and through an accidental relation in another, it no longer functions as a uniform middle term. The respective modes of predication cannot simply be merged.