Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I
Download or Read eBook Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I PDF written by Gisela Striker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Gisela Striker |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-05-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780191568954 |
ISBN-13 | : 0191568953 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I by : Gisela Striker
Book excerpt: 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.