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Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I: Translated with an introduction and commentary

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0199250413, 9780199250417
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11288676 bytes)
Series
Clarendon Aristotle Series
Edition
1
Pages
256\286
Time added
2015-05-27 02:28:30

Description

Aristotle's Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle himself, this meant the discovery of a general theory of valid deductive argument, a project that he had described as either impossible or impracticable, probably not very long before he actually came up with syllogistic reasoning. A syllogism is the inferring of one proposition from two others of a particular form, and it is the subject of the Prior Analytics. The first book, to which this volume is devoted, offers a fairly coherent presentation of Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument.

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