Aristotle, Prior Analytics Book I

By Gisela Striker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199250405
• ISBN13: 9780199250400
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"