SOURCE: "Aristotle on Necessary Truth and Logical Priority," in American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 4, October, 1981, pp. 285-93.
In the following essay, Ferejohn traces Aristotle's effort to provide an accurate account of a specific kind of necessary truth which pertains to the "'definitional' features "of sentences. Ferejohn argues that Aristotle's work in this field led him to the development of the doctrine of logical, or definitional, priority—a doctrine which Aristotle later applied as an analytical tool in other types of philosophical endeavors.
