 Avempace explains what he understands under “syllogistic potency”: Aristotle sometimes would say that many conclusions result from one syllogism, and sometimes not only one, and this possibility is interpreted as “syllogistic potency”. According to Avempace, when Aristotle argues: Every man is an animal and every animal is sensible, thus every man is  sensible,[14]  he means that by action of the syllogistic potency the conclusion ‘a certain animal is a man’ follows from the assertion ‘every man is an animal’.