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Title Philoponus : on Aristotle posterior analytics 1.9-18 / translated by Richard McKirahan
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
Series Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
Contents Cover; Contents; Conventions; Introduction; Textual Information; Translation; Notes; Bibliography; English-Greek Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Greek-English Index; A; B; D; E; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; Z; Index of Passages; A; D; E; H; J; M; N; P; S; T; Index of Names; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
Summary In this part of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle elaborates his assessment of how universal truths of science can be scientifically explained as inevitable in demonstrative proofs. But he introduces complications: some sciences discuss phenomena that can only be explained by higher sciences and again sometimes we reason out a cause from an effect, rather than an effect from a cause. Philoponus takes these issues further. Reasoning from particular to universal is the direction taken by induction, and in mathematics reasoning from a theorem to the higher principles from which it follows is co
Notes "Paperback edition first published 2014"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014)
Subject Aristotle. Posteror analytics
Logic -- Early works to 1800
Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800
Knowledge, Theory of
Logic
Genre/Form Early works
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781472500366
1472500369
0715640895
9780715640890
1472557972
9781472557971