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From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's DialecticLexington Books. 1999.Scholars of classical philosophy have long disputed whether Aristotle was a dialectical thinker. Most agree that Aristotle contrasts dialectical reasoning with demonstrative reasoning, where the former reasons from generally accepted opinions and the latter reasons from the true and primary. Starting with a grasp on truth, demonstration never relinquishes it. Starting with opinion, how could dialectical reasoning ever reach truth, much less the truth about first principles? Is dialectic then an …Read more
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26Lion-Hunt Sarcophagi Bernard Andreae: Die Symbolik der Löwenjagd. Gerda Henkel Vorlesung. Pp. 68; 32 plates. Opladen: Westdeutscher, 1985. Paper, DM 19.80 (review)The Classical Review 38 (02): 362-363. 1988.
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61The Elgin Marbles B. F. Cook: The Elgin Marbles. Pp. 72; 36 colour and 50 black and white illustrations. London: British Museum Press, 1984 Paper, £4.95 (review)The Classical Review 36 (01): 119-121. 1986.
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134The Relationship of aristotle's Two AnalyticsClassical Quarterly 32 (2): 327-335. 1982.In 1928, Friedrich Solmsen argued that Aristotle'sPosterior Analyticswas largely composed before thePrior Analytics. Ross rejected Solmsen's position in 1939, and a rather lengthy series of rebuttals and counter-attacks between the two scholars followed. Quite recently, Jonathan Barnes has revived this issue with arguments in favour of something very close to Solmsen's thesis: that Aristotle first developed a theory of demonstration (‘apodeictic’) before he had worked out the syllogistic, and th…Read more
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116Richard Bosley, "Aspects of Aristotle's Logic" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 14 (3): 361. 1976.
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42Livias E. Bartman Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome . Pp. xxiv + 242, 194 figs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Cased, £65. ISBN: 0521-58394- (review)The Classical Review 51 (01): 143-. 2001.
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99Mass terms, generic expressions, and Plato's theory of formsJournal of the History of Philosophy 16 (2): 141-153. 1978.
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Ancient Greek modal logicIn Otávio Bueno & Scott A. Shalkowski (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Modality, Routledge. 2018.
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74Prior AnalyticsKessinger Publishing. 1989.WE must first state the subject of our inquiry and the faculty to which it belongs: its subject is demonstration and the faculty that carries it out demonstrative science.
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543At the beginning of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle says that “all learning and all rational teaching arises from previously existing knowledge”. How, then, can we have any knowledge? If all our knowledge is acquired by learning that depends on previously existing knowledge, then we would have an infinite regress of still prior knowledge, with the result that we cannot learn anything without having learned something else first. If we reject this possibility, then the only one that remains is th…Read more
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114Richard D. McKirahan, Jr., "Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (2): 294. 1994.
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96Logic, Ontology, and Language: Essays on Truth and Reality. By Herbert Hochberg (review)Modern Schoolman 65 (4): 279-282. 1988.
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129Completeness of an Ecthetic SyllogisticNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24 (2): 224-232. 1983.
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89Dialectic and Method in AristotleIn May Sim (ed.), From Puzzles to Principles? Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic, . 1999.In his 1961 paper "Tithenai ta Phainomena",1 G. E. L. Owen addressed the problem of the relationship between science as preached in the Analytics and the practice of the Aristotelian treatises. However, he gave this venerable crux a novel twist by focusing on a different aspect of the issue. According to the Prior Analytics , it appears that the first premises of scientific demonstrations must be obtained from collections (historiai) of facts derived from empirical observation. However, many of …Read more
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130Hippocrates G. Apostle, "Aristotle's Posterior Analytics" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 395. 1983.
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84Apostle, Aristotle's posterior analytics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 395-396. 1983.
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96Some studies of logical transformations in the prior analyticsHistory and Philosophy of Logic 2 (1-2): 1-9. 1981.I argue that Prior analyticsII.5?7, 8?10, and 1.45 actually contain studies of processes for transforming arguments into other arguments which Aristotle carried out before having completed the theory of perfecting syllogisms by reduction to first-figure moods as presented in Prior analytics1.4?7. This position rejects Ross's opinion that these passages are ?mental gymnastics?, and Patzig's view that some of these texts contain studies of alternative axiomatizations or other logical studies poste…Read more
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