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[6] Or "prove themselves good," as in the Prior Analytics, ii 25,

[Greek: apanta pisteuomen k.t l] but the other rendering is

supported by a passage in Book VIII. chap. ix. [Greek: oi d' upo

ton epieikon kai eidoton oregomenoi timaes bebaiosai ten oikeian

doxan ephientai peri auton chairousi de oti eisin agathoi,

pisteuontes te ton legonton krisei]

[7] [Greek: thesis] meant originally some paradoxical statement

by any philosopher of name enough to venture on one, but had come

to mean any dialectical question. Topics, I. chap. ix.

[8] A lost work, supposed to have been so called, because

containing miscellaneous questions.