Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics: 1.8-13 (with 1.17, 36b35-37a31)

by Victor Caston

The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is the main ancient commentary, by the 'greatest' commentator, on the chapters of the Prior Analytics in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of propositions about what is necessary or contingent (possible). In this volume, which covers chapters 1.8-13, Alexander of Aphrodisias reaches the chapter in which Aristotle discusses the notion of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780938810
• ISBN13: 9781780938813
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"