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On Aristotle's "Prior Analytics 1.32-46"

Title
  1. On Aristotle's "Prior Analytics 1.32-46" / Alexander of Aphrodisias ; translated by Ian Mueller.
Published by
  1. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Author
  1. Alexander, of Aphrodisias.

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Additional authors
  1. Mueller, Ian.
Description
  1. 164 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "The last fourteen chapters of Book One of Aristotle's Prior Analytics are concerned with the representation in the formal language of syllogisitc of propositions and arguments expressed in more or less everyday Greek. In his commentary on these chapters, Alexander of Aphrodisias explains some of Aristotle's more opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian ideas in semantics and the philosophy of language. In doing so he provides an unusual insight into the way in which these disciplines developed in the Hellenistic era. He also shows a more sophisticated understanding of these fields than Aristotle himself, while remaining a staunch defender of Aristotle's emphasis on meaning as opposed to the Stoic's concern with verbal formulation."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Ancient commentators on Aristotle
Uniform title
  1. Commentaria in Analytica priora Aristotelis. 1.32-46. English
  2. Ancient commentators on Aristotle.
Alternative title
  1. Commentaria in Analytica priora Aristotelis. 1.32-46.
Subject
  1. Aristotle
  2. Prior analytics (Aristotle)
  3. Logic > Early works to 1800
  4. Semantics (Philosophy) > Early works to 1800
  5. Language and languages > Philosophy > Early works to 1800
  6. Language and languages > Philosophy
  7. Logic
  8. Semantics (Philosophy)
  9. Taalfilosofie
  10. Analytica priora (Aristoteles)
Genre/Form
  1. Early works.
Contents
  1. Formalizing ordinary arguments as categorical syllogisms -- Arguments which appear valid but are not because they lack a universal premiss -- States (e.g. 'sickness') and things corresponding to states (e.g. 'sick') as terms -- Names and phrases as terms -- ways of holding and the categories -- Duplication and co-predication -- Substitutability of synonymous expressions -- Presence or absence of a definite article in a term (e.g. 'good' and 'the good') -- 'A holds of everything of which B holds' and 'A holds of everything of all of which B holds' -- Composite syllogisms -- Arguments about definitions -- Formalizing arguments from a hypothesis -- Reducing arguments from one figure into another without using reductio ad impossibile -- denial that A holds of B and the assertion that not-A holds of B.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (page 136) and indexes.