The Logic of Essentialism: An Interpretation of Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic

by Paul Thom

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the apodeictic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792339878
• ISBN13: 9780792339878
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"