Aristotle - The Organon - index for TOPICA Book 7 Part 3

Reasoning to a thing's definition

Paragraph 1 This then is the way, and these the arguments, whereby the attempt to demolish a definition should always be made.

Paragraph 2 That a definition may thus be reached by a process of reasoning is obvious.

Paragraph 3 Moreover, look at it from the point of view of its inflexions and coordinates.

Paragraph 4 Moreover, look at it from the point of view of things that stand in relations that are like each other.

Paragraph 5 Moreover, look at it from the point of and like degrees, in all the ways in which it is possible to establish a result by comparing two and two together.

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Paragraph 1	This then is the way, and these the arguments, whereby the attempt to demolish a definition should always be made.
Paragraph 2	That a definition may thus be reached by a process of reasoning is obvious.
Paragraph 3	Moreover, look at it from the point of view of its inflexions and coordinates.
Paragraph 4	Moreover, look at it from the point of view of things that stand in relations that are like each other.
Paragraph 5	Moreover, look at it from the point of and like degrees, in all the ways in which it is possible to establish a result by comparing two and two together.