Keturių pirmųjų Aristotelio kategorijų interpretavimas scholastinėje logikoje Lietuvoje XVI a. antrojoje pusėje
The Interpretation of the First Four Predicaments in Scholastic Logic in Lithuania in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Summary/Abstract: The interpretation of the first four predicaments of Aristotle’s scholastic logic in Lithuania in the second half of the sixteenth century based itself on Aristotelian definitions and distinctions, offering some small corrections, additions and even deviations. The representatives of the above-mentioned logic, Marcin Úmiglecki, Pedro Viana and Diego Ortiz, traditionally interpreted the position of substance in a predicamental series. That is, self-existent substance was regarded as a necessary subject for all the other predicaments, bearing the status of accidental being. Meanwhile, an analysis of the essence of relation involved the above-mentioned authors in a significant scholastic dispute. In this controversy our scholiasts followed the position of P. Fonseca and P. Soncinus, identifying the essence of quantity with its extension. The interpretation of relation by the above-mentioned scholiasts stuck to a classical scholastic view. That is, it was affirmed that that relation might be both a real entity and a pure creation of the human intellect. The reality of relation was also traditionally reduced to the reality of components of such a relation and the real distinction between a relation’s subject and term. Finally, the analysis of quality made by our scholiasts has also not deviated from scholastic tradition. Within its frameworks quality was regarded as the last accidental category, determining and denominating substance intrinsically.

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