Authors/Ockham/Summa Logicae/Book I/Chapter 61

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[CAP. 61. DE PRAEDICAMENTO POSITIONIS]	[Chapter 61. On the category of position]
Nonum praedicamentum ponitur positio, quod secundum opinionem Aristotelis non significat rem distinctam a rebus absolutis, sed significat quod partes rei sic vel sic ordinantur et situantur et approximantur. Unde ex hoc ipso quod aliquis est erectus, ita quod partes vel tibiae non incurvantur nec partes earum approximantur, dicitur stare, et e converso est de sedere. In isto autem praedicamento sunt 'sedere', 'stare', 'reclinare', 'iacere' et consimilia. Et nihil in hoc praedicamento potest alicui competere nisi quanto, cuius partes possunt diversimode approximari, propter quam diversam approximationem diversa et contraria sive incompossibilia praedicabilia possunt eidem successive competere.	The ninth category is given as position, which according to the opinion of Aristotle does not signify a thing distinct from absolute things, but rather signifies that the parts of a thing are ordered so and so, and a situated and approximated. Hence, from the very fact that something is erect, so that the parts or bones are not crooked, nor are their parts brought closer, is said to stand, and conversely is said to sit. But in the category are ‘sit’, ‘stand’, ‘recline’, ‘lie’ and the like. And nothing can belong to something in this category unless an amount, whose parts can be brought together in diverse ways, because of which diverse approximation diverse and contrary or incompatible predicables can successively belong to the same thing.
Isti autem praedicamento non habemus aliquod interrogativum correspondens, sed hoc est propter vocabulorum penuriam. Alii autem tenent quod positio est quidam respectus inhaerens toti vel partibus, ita quod ex hoc quod surgit qui sedit, habet unam rem in se quam prius non habuit, et unam aliam quam prius habuit perdit.	But for this category we do not have a corresponding interrogative, but this is because of the poverty of language. But others hold that position is a certain relative inhering in the whole or the parts, so that from the fact that someone rises or sits, he has one thing in him which beforehand he did not have, and loses one other thing which beforehand he did have.