Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.1-8

by Philoponus

Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess. His model is mathematics and his treatment of science amounts to a philosophical discussion, from the perspective of Aristotelian syllogistic, of mathematical proofs and the principles they are based on. Chapters 1-8 expound the foundations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715636677
• ISBN13: 9780715636671
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"