This work provides some interesting new results on the notion of the topos and the theory of hypothetical syllogisms in Aristotle based on an incisive interpretation of Aristotle's "Topics" and certain passages of the "Analytics."
"Alexander's commentary on Book 1 concerns the definition of Aristotelian syllogistic argument; its resistance to the rival Stoic theory of inference; and the character of inductive inference and of rhetorical...
A bilingual edition of several of this influential twelfth-century philosopher's greatest works.
ISBN 9004 09440 7 set SHANKMAN, A. Aristotle's De insomniis. A Commentary. ISBN 9004 094768 MANSFELD, J. Heresiography in Context. Hippolytos' Elenchos as a Source for Greek Philosophy. 1992. ISBN 90 0409616 7 O'BRIEN, D. Théodicée ...
3; Short Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, para. 4, n. 12; and Short Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics, para. 2, n. 9. 44. For example, cf. infra, Short Commentary on Aristotle's Topics, para. 1, n. 3; Short Commentary on Aristotle's ...
This volume will be valuable reading for students of Aristotle and of the developments of Peripatetic logic and ethics in late antiquity.
Through an interpretation which is philologically rooted in the historical context of topoi, the book lays the ground for evaluating the relevance of the classical approaches to modern research on arguments, and at the same time provides an ...
An overview of biology and philosophy is followed by three sections on individual issues definition and demonstration, teleology and necessity in nature, and metaphysical themes.
A bilingual edition of several of this influential twelfth-century philosopher’s greatest works.
The work will be of interest not only for its perspective on ancient logic, rhetoric, and debate, but also for its continuing influence on argument in the Middle Ages and later.
Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself.