τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθὲς τὴν κατάφασιν ἐπὶ τῴ συγκειμένῳ ἔχει, τὴν δ’ ἀπόφασιν ἐπὶ τῴ διῃρημένῳ, τὸ δὲ ψεῦδος τούτου τοῦ μερισμοῦ τὴν ἀντίφασιν. (Metaphysics VI 4, 1027b20–22)
In a translation, with explanations in brackets:
Uncovering {as a form of enactment} entails attribution {of something to something} regarding things already-present-together, and denial {of something to something} with regard to what is taken apart; {or more precisely, with regard to what is already present but not together-with}. [165] But covering-over consists in saying the opposite {about what is already together-with or already separated from something else}.
So, covering-over consists in attributing something to something when they actually are apart in the given thing, and in denying something of something when in fact they are together in the thing.
This second text gives us something new in relation to the first text, but the new element is already familiar to us. When, in what we have characterized as a statement, we indicate and determine something as something, the being does indeed come to light. What is present is indicated as something, in such a way that the what as-which the being is shown “lies” there in that being (cf. κείμενον—κείται [“lying there—to lie there”]). That is, the thing, the statement’s subject matter, is brought together as something that lies together. The being is understood as something lying-there-together. But that means that the being is characterized on the basis of the σύν- of σύνθεσις. With explanations in brackets:
τοῦτο δὲ {τὸ ἀληθὲς καὶ τὸ ψεῦδος} ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἐστὶ τῴ συγκεῖσθαι ἢ διῃρῆσθαι, ὥστε ἀληθεύει μὲν ὁ τὸ διῃρημένον οἰόμενος διῃρῆσθαι καὶ τὸ συγκείμενον συγκεῖσθαι, ἔψευσται δὲ ὁ ἐναντίως ἔχων ἢ τὰ πράγματα. (Metaphysics IX 10, 1051b2–5)
In a translation, with explanations in brackets:
With regard to existent things, this {uncovering and covering-over} is about their {already} lying-together or taken-apart-ness. Therefore, who-ever takes the taken-apart in its taken-apart-ness, and the lying-together in its lying-together-ness, uncovers. But when someone {in taking beings, i.e., discussing and thus showing them} relates to them in the opposite way, that person covers-over.
Insofar as synthesis is the structure of λόγoς as indicative comportment, the ὄν and its structure is interpreted on the basis of the λόγoς and its structure. The structure of being has the character of being