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This article is intended to be a discussion of a few passages of Aristotle's "de interpretatione," in which the philosopher deals with the notion of simplicity of a proposition and with certain relations holding between several types of predicates contained in a proposition. It is the aim of these remarks to clarify Aristotle's view of the problems just mentioned and, secondly, to venture an explanation of one of the questions raised in terms of modern linguistics.

The article reports on the result of the survey regarding preparation in semantics and principles of induction and deduction for education students at the undergraduate level and the master's degree level in the U.S. The study found that approximately 38 percent of the first set of respondent institutions require preparation in semantics or logic or both for all education students at the bachelor's level. With respect to institutions requiring preparation for semantics, Roman Catholic colleges require a significantly greater number of semester hours of preparation than general colleges or teachers colleges. The study also revealed that approximately 27 percent of the second set of respondent institutions require preparation in semantics both for all education students at the master's level.