Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.9-18

by John Philoponus

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472557972
• ISBN13: 9781472557971
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"