Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.9-18

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Philoponus

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Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

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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. This volume contains an English translation of Philoponus' commentary, a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Author Biography:

Richard McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, Claremont, California.

Release date NZ

April 10th, 2014

Author

Philoponus

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by Richard D. McKirahan

Pages

208

Series

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Dimensions

156x234x11

ISBN-13

9781472557971

Product ID

21649721

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