Review of E. O. Wallace, The Notes on Philosophy in the Commentary of Servius on the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid of Vergil. American Journal of Philology 65 (1944).

BesidesthesyllogismKappalsodiscussesproblemsinvolvingother topicsoftraditionallogic,namely,concepts,judgments,andinduction.ForeachtopichefindsthespecifichistoricalsettingofAristotle'sviews,thedisregardofwhichhascausedamisinterpretation ofAristotlebytraditionallogic.Asintheeaseofthesyllogism,this historicalsettingisfoundintheworksofPlato.ThecorrectunderstandingofmanypartsofAristotle'slogic,Kappsays,"depends onunprejudicedinterpretationofPlato'sratherthanofAristotle's writings"(p.60).Forexample,mostofthe"difficultiesinAristotle'slogicofthejudgmentdisappearcompletelywhenweconsult Plato'sBophiste11"(p.58).Theproblemoffalsereasoning,as Aristotlepresentsitinthe"SophisticElenchi,""wouldbeincomprehensibleoratleastunbelievabletous,ifwedidnothaveadialogue ofPlato,theEuthydemu"(p.63).The"obviousdivergencebetweenArWtotle'snotionofinductionandthemodernconceptof intuitiveinductionn(p.82)isexplainedbyreferencetotheMeno. ThusAristotleisexpoundedprimarilyonhistoricalandphilological, ratherthanonanalyticgrounds.