Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.9-18 (Paperback, Nippod)


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.

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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.

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Imprint

Bloomsbury Academic

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Ancient Commentators on Aristotle

Release date

April 2014

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First published

April 2014

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Translators

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234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

208

Edition

Nippod

ISBN-13

978-1-4725-5797-1

Barcode

9781472557971

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1-4725-5797-2



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