Albertus Magnus

The Opera Omnia of the Universal Doctor, rendered into English

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Volume 1 · pp. 1–148

On the Predicables

Liber de Praedicabilibus

68 sections · translated from Borgnet vol. 1, pp. 1–148

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  1. First Book on the Predicables. Treatise I. On the nature of logic. Chapter I. Whether Logic is a special science? · pp. 1–2
  2. Chapter II. Whether logic is a part of philosophy? · pp. 2–5
  3. Chapter III. On the usefulness of dialectic. · pp. 5–6
  4. Chapter IV. Concerning what logic is about as its subject? · pp. 6–29
  5. Chapter V. On the division of logic, what its parts are, and concerning a word signifying by convention, what and how it signifies. · pp. 8–33
  6. Chapter VI. On the part of logic which certifies the incomplex, and on the requirements for true definition, its faults, and the modes of definition. · pp. 11–12
  7. Chapter VI. On the part of logic which certifies the incomplex, and on the requirements for true definition, its faults, and the modes of definition. · pp. 13–14
  8. Chapter VII. On the part of logic by which a question concerning the complex is certified, on the necessity of the whole of logic, and that the mode of knowing is varied according to the diversity of matters in which science is sought. · pp. 14–16
  9. Treatise II. On the five universals. Chapter I. How the universal belongs to the consideration of the logician, on the number of universals, and on the usefulness of the book of universals. · pp. 17–19
  10. Chapter II. From which questions concerning universals one must abstain. · pp. 19–20
  11. Chapter III. On the declaration and examination of the first question. · pp. 20–24
  12. Chapter III. Whether universals are posited in bare and pure intellects alone, or outside the soul? · pp. 25–26
  13. Chapter VI. In what way the universal is in the soul, in what way in itself, and in what way in the singular, and in which it is more truly according to the being of its nature. · pp. 33–36
  14. Chapter VII. In what way the universal is produced into being. · p. 36
  15. Chapter VII. In what way the universal is produced into being. · p. 37
  16. Chapter VIII. Whether the universal is form, or matter, or composite; and if it is form, what sort of form it is. · pp. 37–39
  17. Chapter IX. How universal is predicated of the five universals, and concerning the sufficiency and order of the five universals. · pp. 39–40
  18. Tractate III. On universals in particular. Chapter I. On the diverse signs of genus. · pp. 41–44
  19. Chapter II. On philosophical genus, and how it is assimilated to the others. · pp. 44–45
  20. Chapter III. On the definition or description of physical genus. · pp. 46–48
  21. Chapter IV. That the definition of genus neither abounds nor is deficient, and its declaration. · p. 48
  22. Chapter IV. That the definition of genus neither abounds nor is deficient, and its declaration. · pp. 49–52
  23. Chapter V. On the recapitulation of the things that have been said about the discourse on genus. · pp. 52–53
  24. Tractate IV. On species. Chapter I. On the diverse intentions of species. · pp. 54–55
  25. Chapter I. On the diverse intentions of species. · pp. 56–58
  26. Chapter II. On two questions concerning the things said before. · pp. 59–60
  27. Chapter II. On two questions concerning the things said before. · p. 61
  28. Chapter III. How the most special species is found, and on predicamental coordination. · pp. 61–65
  29. Chapter IV. How the things which have been said are reduced to a compendium. · pp. 65–67
  30. Chapter V. On the manifestation of the things said from consequents and similar things. · pp. 67–72
  31. Chapter VI. On the mode of coming from the most general to the most special things, and conversely. · p. 72
  32. Chapter VI. On the mode of coming from the most general to the most special things, and conversely. · pp. 73–77
  33. Chapter VII. On the mode of the predicables which are predicated. · pp. 77–79
  34. Tractate V. On Difference. Chapter I. On the distinction of the name of difference, which is said in many ways. · pp. 80–84
  35. Chapter II. On the manifestation of the modes of difference and of the parts of the division already introduced. · p. 84
  36. Chapter II. On the manifestation of the modes of difference and of the parts of the division already introduced. · pp. 85–87
  37. Chapter III. How substantial differences are constitutive, and how they are divisive. · pp. 87–91
  38. Chapter IV. How species exceeds genus through difference, and how genus has differences by power. · pp. 91–96
  39. Chapter IV. How species exceeds genus through difference, and how genus has differences by power. · p. 97
  40. Chapter V. How difference is defined according as it is a universal predicable of species. · pp. 97–100
  41. Chapter VI. On doubts against the definition of difference, on the errors of those solving badly, and on the true solution of all of them. · pp. 100–103
  42. Chapter VII. On the description of difference insofar as it regards genus. · pp. 104–105
  43. Chapter VIII. Description of difference insofar as it posits difference; Chapter IX. On the definition which fits only the more proper difference. · pp. 105–108
  44. Chapter IX. On the definition which more properly belongs to difference alone. · pp. 109–110
  45. Tractate VI. On Proper. Chapter I. On the intention of proper according to which the logician treats of it. · pp. 111–114
  46. Chapter II. On the definition of proper and the explanation of its parts. · pp. 115–116
  47. Tractate VII. On Accident. Chapter I. On the difference of proper and accident insofar as accident is the fifth predicable. · pp. 117–120
  48. Chapter II. On the first assignment of accident given by Porphyry. · p. 120
  49. Chapter II. On the first assignment of accident given by Porphyry. · pp. 121–123
  50. Chapter III. On the second and third assignment of accident given by Porphyry. · pp. 123–124
  51. Tractate VIII. On the common features in which the five universals agree and the differences by which they differ. Chapter I. On that in which all five universals communicate. · pp. 125–126
  52. Chapter II. On the three common features of genus and difference. · pp. 126–127
  53. Chapter III. In which things genus and difference differ. · pp. 127–128
  54. Chapter IV. On the summary of the things said concerning the common and proper features of genus and difference. · pp. 128–130
  55. Chapter V. On the common and proper features of genus and species. · pp. 130–131
  56. Chapter VI. On the agreements and differences of genus and proper. · p. 132
  57. Chapter VI. On the agreements and differences of genus and proper. · pp. 133–134
  58. Chapter VII. On the commonalities and differences of genus and accident. · pp. 134–136
  59. Chapter VIII. On the common and proper features of difference and species. · pp. 136–139
  60. Chapter IX. On the commonalities and differences of difference and proper. · pp. 139–140
  61. Chapter X. On the commonalities and differences of difference and accident. · pp. 140–141
  62. Chapter XI. On the agreements and differences of species and proper. · pp. 141–142
  63. Chapter XII. On the agreements and differences of species and accident. · p. 142
  64. Chapter XIII. On the common features of proper and inseparable accident, and their differences. · p. 143
  65. Tractate IX. On the comparison of all these universals to one another from Avicenna's logic on the comparison of these five among themselves. Chapter I. How all these coincide in one. · p. 144
  66. Tractate IX, Chapter I: How all these coincide in one · pp. 145–146
  67. Tractate IX, Chapter II: How all these five universals are mixed with one another · p. 146
  68. Tractate IX, Chapter III: How these five are certain natures, and how they are universals, and how intelligible, and how simple · pp. 146–148