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Here the basic relation applies to all/none of, and so forth, is modified by 'necessarily'. Again, where a proposition is not quantified, or where Aristotle does not have quantification in view, he will speak of 'is' or 'applies' as the basic copula, and use 'necessarily applies' and the like to express modality. But either way - that is, whether a given modal statement is quantified or not - it can be broken down into two terms, each serving indifferently as subject or predicate term, and a modal copula.
Coriscus, Socrates). And again, the same terms show that we might have true a necessity version of 'Human applies to all/some White' without the necessity version of 'White some Human' being true. , de re) reading, neither An nor In converts. In fact, Aristotle's counterexample for the case of two-way possibility could just as well show, with easy, minor adaptations, the non-convertibility of all the necessity and one-way possibility conversions he has previously asserted, and on which he relies heavily in validating syllogisms outside the first figure.
It is worth noting how the essence/accident distinction would fit with the Topics' discussion of the "four predicables," especially since there are some explicit indications in the Prior Analytics that syllogistic terms will be drawn from the predicables of Topics I. Three central points are forcefully stated in the Topics and explicitly confirmed in the Prior Analytics: Arguments (logoi) arise from premises (protaseis), and syllogisms (sullogismoi) are concerned with problems (problemata). But every premise and every problem indicates either genus or proprium or accident (genos e idion e sumbebekos).