τεκμήριον: Difference between revisions

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