Prior analytics. Book 1 / Aristotle ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Gisela Striker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristotle.

Contributor:

Striker, Gisela.

Series:

Clarendon Aristotle series

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Prior analytics.

Aristotle.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Physical Description:

xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Notes on translation and commentary

Translation

Commentary

Notes on the text.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199250417

0199250413

9780199250400

0199250405

OCLC:

300721020