Signs and Demonstrations from Aristotle to Radulphus Brito

by Francesco Bellucci and Costantino Marmo

In the Posterior Analytics Aristotle contrasts demonstrations with syllogisms through signs. In the Prior Analytics he defines a sign as a demonstrative premise. One is thus led to ask: is a sign a demonstration?
This book reconstructs the history of the notion of "demonstration through signs" from roughly the third through to the thirteenth century. It examines the work of Aristotle's Greek, Arabic, and Latin commentators, both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004543155
• ISBN13: 9789004543157
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 488 Pages