ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide to study three areas: some actual statements of Aristotle, some silences in Aristotle, and some evidence from Alexander and other later writers. It considers the possibility that Aristotle left some arguments which are not to be found in the Prior Analytics. Flannery suggests that it is unlikely that Theophrastus wrote a commentary in the later, lemma by lemma, fashion. Aristotle wrote a rather terse passage about mixed modes on which Alexander and others wrote at length reporting the views of other logicians. Of these Eudemus and Theophrastus together, and some Platonists, are named, and a variety of arguments both for and against Aristotle are given. The chapter also considers a situation where it is possible that Theophrastus and Eudemus suggested some examples to help Aristotle out. One big point on which Theophrastus and Eudemus disagreed with Aristotle is the meaning of "possible".
