Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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> it
> looks to me as if aristotle's approach included the use of slightly
> awkward phrasings that could not easily be confused with ordinary,
> everyday speech, and so also were not easily reducible to people's
> preconceptions about what a word like, for example, "eidos" means.
I had wondered why posters were complaining about "the this." I suspect that any "less weird" equivalent would be a full paragraph in length -- & then not very clear. We talk about "this" as much as we talk about anything, and the phrase certainly dramatizes that there may be questions about what makes "a this" a this rather than "a that."
Carrol