 The exercitation on the Analysis (Alwuzad 2006) relates to a particular work by Alfarabi concerning the premises of the syllogism (Mallet 1994). Alfarabi placed it between the First and the Second Analytics considering that it provided us with the laws ruling the formation of the premises, something which became necessary after the syllogism had been described. Alfarabi linked the theory of the premises to the topoi “places” as they are understood in the Aristotelian treatise with the same title, the Topics. He defined topoi, Arabic mawadiʿ in these terms: