in relation to the subject: it is only the title that makes this
misleading suggestion.

To complete the confusion it so happens that Aristotle used three of
the Five terms in what was virtually a division of Predicates inasmuch
as it was a division of Problems or Questions. In expounding the
methods of Dialectic in the Topica he divided Problems into four
classes according to the relation of the Predicate to the Subject. The
Predicate must either be simply convertible with the subject or not.
If simply convertible, the two must be coextensive, and the
Predicate must be either a Proprium or the Definition. If not simply
convertible, the Predicate must either be part of the Definition or
not. If part of the Definition it must be either a Generic Property
or a Differentia (both of which in this connexion Aristotle includes
under Genus): if not part of the Definition, it is an Accident.
Aristotle thus arrives at a fourfold division of Problems or
Predicates:--[Greek: genos] (_Genus_, including _Differentia_,
[Greek: diaphora]); [Greek: horos] (Definition); [Greek: to idion]
(_Proprium_); and [Greek: to symbebekos] (_Accidens_). The object of
it was to provide a basis for his systematic exposition; each of the
four kinds admitted of differences in dialectic method. For us it is
a matter of simple curiosity and ingenuity. It serves as a monument
of how much Greek dialectic turned on Definition, and it corresponds
exactly to the division of attributes into Defining and Non-defining
given above. It is sometimes said that Aristotle showed a more
scientific mind than Porphyry in making the Predicables four instead
of five. This is true if Porphyry's list had been meant as a division
of attributes: but it was not so meant.

The distinction between VERBAL or ANALYTIC and REAL or SYNTHETIC
Predication corresponds to the distinction between Defining and
Non-defining attributes, and also has no significance except with
reference to some scheme of Division, scientific and precise or loose
and popular.

When a proposition predicates of a subject something contained in the
full notion, concept, or definition of the subject term, it is called
Verbal, Analytic, or Explicative: _verbal_, inasmuch as it merely
explains the meaning of a name; _explicative_ for the same reason;
_analytic_, inasmuch as it unties the bundle of attributes held
together in the concept and pays out one, or all one by one.

When the attributes of the Predi