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Aristotle, On Interpretation 1, 16a3–18: order of signification; truth and falsity as composition and division. Chapter 2: the noun. Chapter 4: the statement.

Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s On Interpretation, Book I, Lessons 1–3: names, concepts, and things; speech by human institution.

Porphyry, Isagoge, opening: the three questions about universals.

Anthony Andres, Introduction to Aristotelian Logic (The Arts of Liberty Project): the sign; logic and words; universal and singular; univocal, equivocal, and denominative names.

Jacques Maritain, Formal Logic, trans. Imelda Choquette (Sheed & Ward, 1937): mental and objective concept; the word as a sign; comprehension and extension; the universal.

Walshe, Commentary on the Categories of Aristotle: well-formed speech and true speech; category and grammatical form.

R. E. Houser, Logic as a Liberal Art: An Introduction to Rhetoric and Reasoning (Catholic University of America Press, 2020): the three acts of the mind; kinds of signs (Lesson 7); the order of the three arts; demonstrative, dialectical, and sophistical reasoning.

Pierre Conway, Aristotelian Formal and Material Logic, ed. Mary Michael Spangler (University Press of America, 1995): stages of reasoning; fallacy.

Aristotle, Rhetoric, trans. W. Rhys Roberts, I.1–2: rhetoric and dialectic; the definition of rhetoric; the three proofs; the sophist.

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