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670Modern interpreters have often regarded Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics as a mystery, or even a bit of an embarrassment. In his treatises on natural science and ethics, Aristotle is constantly concerned to review the opinions of his predecessors and of people in general; where appropriate, he also takes note of experiential observations, some of them highly specialized. However, the traditional view of the Posterior Analytics is that it advances an almost Cartesian picture of sciences as deducti…Read more
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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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170What Is Aristotelian Ecthesis?History and Philosophy of Logic 3 (2): 113-127. 1982.I consider the proper interpretation of the process of ecthesis which Aristotle uses several times in the Prior analytics for completing a syllogistic mood, i.e., showing how to produce a deduction of a conclusion of a certain form from premisses of certain forms. I consider two interpretations of the process which have been advocated by recent scholars and show that one seems better suited to most passages while the other best fits a single remaining passage. I also argue that ecthesis for Aris…Read more
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137The 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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131Hippocrates G. Apostle, "Aristotle's Posterior Analytics" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 395. 1983.
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129Completeness of an Ecthetic SyllogisticNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 24 (2): 224-232. 1983.
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125Topics 5–8 (J.) Brunschwig (ed., trans.) Aristote: Topiques. Livres V–VIII. (Collection des Universités de France publiée sous le patronage de l'Association Guillaume Budé.) Pp. lxiii + 333. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2007. Paper, €71. ISBN: 978-2-251-00537- (review)The Classical Review 60 (1): 48-. 2010.
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121Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (review)Ancient Philosophy 18 (1): 206-210. 1998.This study of three central themes in the logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias, the greatest of the ancient Aristotelian commentators, provides insight not only into Aristotle's logical writings but also into the tradition of scholarship which they spawned.
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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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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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104The Syllogism in Posterior Analytics IArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 64 (2): 113-135. 1982.
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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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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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96Logic, Ontology, and Language: Essays on Truth and Reality. By Herbert Hochberg (review)Modern Schoolman 65 (4): 279-282. 1988.
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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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84Apostle, Aristotle's posterior analytics (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (3): 395-396. 1983.
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76Prior 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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73But if the syllogistic is the most brilliant part of Aristotle'sIn Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle, Cambridge University Press. pp. 27. 1995.
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