Rola negacji w opisie świata według arystotelesowskiej Metafizyki
The Role of Negation in the Description of the World According to Aristotle's Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The notions of 'being' and 'non-being' have entered philosophical language, forming the basis of ontology and meontology, as the counterparts of the Greek expressions 'to on' and 'to me on' (nominased forms, affirmative and negative, of the participle of the verb 'einai'). Originally, however, these expressions did not have objectifying meaning, but played the role of metalanguage names, representing the copula einai in all its forms, most generally in its affirmative and negative forms. The copula itself, which in later philosophy took on the existential meaning, had functioned only as a semantically empty connective of predicates. Over time the participle on has been used as a universal name of all predicates. (...)

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