There is a distinction that has remained with me from the past three lessons. It is that the minor premise alone being necessary, with the exception of Darapti, seems to never yield a necessary conclusive proposition. The tutor confirms my interpretation of why this is the case. I reason that it is because the lesser extreme is posterior to the greater extreme in a priori, therefore what is necessary of a lesser in any figure, necessarily has no bearing on its syllogistic relationship with a greater. As I think about this, it seems to me that if we forget the hierarchical flow of terms in the different figures of syllogisms, then we are certainly tempted into thinking of everything being autonomous to itself and having prior causes to it. I don’t know why, but I can’t help but wonder if this line of thinking is a rotten fruit of the post-modern intellectual movement. If so, then it would explain why everything for a rational mind seems arbitrary, disconnected, and chaotic. There is essentially no flow, no connection, no relationship, and frankly an abyss of pointlessness without a mind that is perceptive in Prior Analytics. This seems to be a recipe for a possible existential crisis.
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