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13Aristotle’s Categorical Syllogistic and its Relation to Scientific KnowledgeSouthwest Philosophy Review 40 (1): 185-194. 2024.Aristotle’s Prior Analytics is probably the earliest existing systematic philosophical writing on a syllogistic system and theory of logic. In this work, Aristotle introduces the categorical syllogistic, consisting of three figures and fourteen valid moods. This paper proposes that Aristotle distinguishes a general notion of syllogisms from a more technical notion of syllogisms. Syllogisms that belong to the categorical syllogistic fall under Aristotle’s technical notion of syllogisms that must …Read more
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Aristotle |
Plato |
Pre-Socratic Philosophy |
Aristotle: Logic and Philosophy of Language |
Plato: Epistemology |