| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
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Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
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Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
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| 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
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Logic -- Early works to 1800
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Logic
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472500366 |
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1472500369 |
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0715640895 |
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9780715640890 |
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1472557972 |
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9781472557971 |
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