Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 270 p)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781472551610
Series Statement:
[The ancient commentators on Aristotle]
Uniform Title:
Commentaria in Analytica priora Aristotelis 1.14-22
Content:
Preface -- Introduction -- Textual Emendations -- TRANSLATION -- Notes -- Bibliography English-Greek -- Glossary Greek-English Index -- Index of Passages Cited -- Subject -- Index
Content:
The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is a very important text, being the main ancient commentary with chapters in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of propositions about what is necessary or contingent (possible). The first volume of Ian Mueller's translation covered chapters 1.8-13, and reached as far as the chapter in which Aristotle discussed the notion of contingency. In this, the second volume, the 'greatest' commentator, Alexander, concludes his discussion of Aristotle's modal logic. Aristotle also invented the syllogism, a style of argument involving two premises and a conclusion. Modal propositions can be deployed in syllogisms, and in the chapters included in this volume Aristotle discusses all the syllogisms containing at least one contingent premiss. In each volume, Ian Mueller provides a comprehensive explanation of Alexander's commentary on modal logic as a whole
Note:
Includes translation of Aristotle's text
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Series statement from jacket
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Translated from the Greek
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780715628768
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472501899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472500304
Additional Edition:
Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472551610
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