On Aristotle’s Use of Examples and How to Read Them: Sobre el uso de los ejemplos en Aristóteles y cómo interpretarlos.

The purpose of this article is twofold. One is to show that Aristotle’s study of examples in An. Pr. and Rh. (and in particular the “comparison” (parabole) described in Rh 2.20) is useful for philosophy and, moreover, it underlies Aristotle’s discussion of examples in several passages of his philosophical writings. The second is to show that in order to correctly understand the examples that Aristotle presents in his philosophical writings, it is crucial for the reader to successfully identify their logical structure (a task made difficult by the heterogeneous structures covered by Aristotelian examples) and, in the case of comparisons, to identify the relevant features of the illustration presented within its context of use.