Aristotle seems to have set up his logic of the with reference to the linguistic habit, i.e., the superficial impression that predications are defined in the Topics with reference to their logical form alone is false. It can be shown that Aristotle had be-come aware of this in the Prior Analytics and that he had adjusted his definition of the  to this. The article ends with some ten-tative remarks as to how these insights could shed new light on the system of predicables as a whole.