τεκμήριον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό<b class="b3">, (τεκμαίρομαι)</b> <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> = [[τέκμαρ]] ''ΙΙ'' (cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1357b8</span>,<span class="bibl">9</span>), a [[sure sign]] or [[token]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">9.100</span>, etc.; τεκμηρίοισιν ἐξ οἰμωγμάτων <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1366</span>; <b class="b3">καὶ μὴν στίβοι γε, δεύτερον τ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ch.</span>205</span>; <b class="b3">θανόντος πίστ' ἔχων τ</b>. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>774</span>; <b class="b3">ἐμφανῆ τ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">1109</span>; <b class="b3">ἀσφαλὲς τ</b>. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span> 94</span>; ταῦτα δὴ πάντα τ. ὅτι . . <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VM</span>8</span>: Medic., a [[sure symptom]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Prog.</span>25</span>, <span class="bibl">Sor.1.33</span>, Gal.18(2).306. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> simply [[sign]], [[symbol]], τοῦ φιλαποδήμου Sor.<span class="title">Vit.Hippocr.</span>12. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[proof]] (properly of an argumentative kind, opp. direct evidence, <span class="bibl">Is.4.12</span>, <span class="bibl">8.6</span>), <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>485</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>158b</span>, al.; opp. <b class="b3">τὰ εἰκότα</b>, <span class="bibl">Antipho 2.4.10</span>; but <b class="b3">οὐκ εἰκότα τ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.4.4.2</span>; τ. δίκαιον <span class="bibl">Id.1.10</span>; <b class="b3">τ. τινός</b> [[proof]] of a thing, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span>662</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Av.</span>482</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">τ. δὲ τοῦδε τὸν Ὅμηρον λαβέ</b> (i.e. the case of Homer) <span class="bibl">Philem.97.5</span>; also τ. περὶ τῶν μελλόντων <span class="bibl">And.3.2</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>185b</span>; <b class="b3">τ. τινὸς δοῦναι, παρασχέσθαι</b>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>826</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Ages.</span>6.1</span>; λέξω <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Eu.</span> 447</span>; <b class="b3">δείξω, ἐπιδείξω, ἀποδεῖξαι</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">662</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>53</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>158b</span>; τ. ἀποφαίνειν περὶ σοφίας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>283a</span>; ἔχειν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>271</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">τεκμήριον δέ</b> as an independent clause, [[now the proof of it is this]] (which follows), [[take this as a proof]], <span class="bibl">Th.2.39</span>, <span class="bibl">D.20.10</span>, etc.; more fully, <b class="b3">τ. δέ μοι τούτου τόδε· αἱ μὲν γὰρ φαίνονται κτλ</b>. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.58</span>; <b class="b3">τ. δὲ τούτου καὶ τόδε· παρὰ μὲν Κύρου κτλ</b>. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>1.9.29</span>; <b class="b3">χρῆσθαι τεκμηρίῳ ὅτι . .</b> ([[ὅτι]] introducing the reason, not the fact) <span class="bibl">And.1.24</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Lys.30.15</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> in the Logic of Aristotle, [[demonstrative proof]], opp. to the fallible [[σημεῖον]] and [[εἰκός]], <span class="title">APr.</span>70b2, <span class="title">Rh.</span>1357b4, 1402b19, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.369 S.</span>