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result in every case. This operation is
his demonstration ἀπόδειξις, or from-showing.
This proof ends by repeating
the very statement with which the ἔκθεσις
closed, to which he affixes the words,
“which is what had to be shown,” ὅπερ ἔδει
δεῖξαι. It is, you perceive, simply a
showing that the thing is so by actual experience
in the imagination. As has often
been remarked, by Locke, for example, by
Kant, by Stuart Mill, and as is admitted by all logicians
the conclusion simply
redescribes the state of things which alone
is represented in the premisses.
In that sense, it does not give us any
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