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I noted in Chapter 4 that in the Posterior Analytics Aristotle clearly links science with what cannot be otherwise. He tells us many times that there is no science of the accidental. So let us suppose that Aristotle’s science concerns only red terms, terms for what cannot be otherwise and, so, terms which have a certain necessity about them.
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Malink, M. 2006, ‘A reconstruction of Aristotle's modal syllogistic’. History and Philosophy of Logic 27: 95–141.
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Rini, A. (2010). Syllogizing in Red: Trivializing the Modals. In: Aristotle's Modal Proofs. The New Synthese Historical Library, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0050-5_6
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