 This reading is said to be the one which Aristotle presented in De interpretatione (De Rijk 1967, II-2, 479.35–480.26). The idea of the systematic distinction between the readings de dicto (in sensu composito) and de re (in sensu diviso) of modally qualified statements was employed in Abelard’s investigations of modal statements (Glossae super Perihermeneias XII, 3–106; Dialectica 191.1–210.19). Independently of Abelard, the distinction was often used, as in the Dialectica Monacensis, in discussions of the composition-division ambiguity of sentences. (See also Maierù 1972, ch. 5; Jacobi 1980, ch. 4.)