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PHILOPONUS: ON ARISTOTLE POSTERIOR ANALYTICS 1.9-18
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Philoponus, Richard D. McKirahan (Trans) |
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Electronic book text |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1472500881 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781472500885 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
10 January, 2013 |
| Series: |
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Synopsis: |
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 considered particularly valuable. It corresponds to the direction of analysis, as opposed to synthesis. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |