Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I Translated with an introduction and commentary
, by Striker, GiselaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780199250417 | 0199250413
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 7/26/2009
Aristotle's Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle himself, this meant the discovery of a general theory of valid deductive argument, a project that he had described as either impossible or impracticable, probably not very long before he actually came up with syllogistic reasoning. A syllogism is the inferring of one proposition from two others of a particular form, and it is the subject of the Prior Analytics. The first book, to which this volume is devoted, offers a fairly coherent presentation of Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument.