Principles and Proofs: Aristotle's Theory of Demonstrative Science - Rilegato

McKirahan, Richard D.

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ISBN 10: 0691073635 ISBN 13: 9780691073637

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

By a thorough study of the Posterior Analytics and related Aristotelian texts, Richard McKirahan reconstructs Aristotle's theory of episteme - science. The Posterior Analytics contains the first extensive treatment of the nature and structure of science in the history of philosophy, and McKirahan's aim is to interpret it sympathetically, following the lead of the text, rather than imposing contemporary frameworks on it.
In addition to treating the theory as a whole, the author uses textual and philological as well as philosophical material to interpret many important but difficult individual passages. A number of issues left obscure by the Aristotelian material are settled by reference to Euclid's geometrical practice in the Elements. To justify this use of Euclid, McKirahan makes a comparative analysis of fundamental features of Euclidian geometry with the corresponding elements of Aristotle's theory. Emerging from that discussion is a more precise and more complex picture of the relation between Aristotle's theory and Greek mathematics - a picture of mutual, rather than one-way dependence.

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Contenuti

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
I	The Motivation for The Theory of Demonstration	7
II	The Approach to the Principles	21
III	The Kinds of Principles	36
IV	The Subject Genus	50
V	The Subordinate Sciences	64
VI	Axioms or Common Principles	68
VII	Definitions, I: The Per Se	80
VIII	Scientific Essences	103
IX	Definitions, II: Form and Content	111
X	Existence Claims	122
XI	Aristotle's Principles and Greek Mathematics	133
XII	Aristotle's Demonstrations and Euclid's Elements	144
XIII	The Varieties of Demonstration, I: Universal Subject-Attribute Demonstrations	164
XIV	The Varieties of Demonstration, II: Application Arguments	177
XV	The Varieties of Demonstration, III: Demonstrations of Existence	188
XVI	Demonstration of Essence: Another Form of Scientific Proof?	198
XVII	Scientific Explanation	209
XVIII	Our Knowledge of the Principles	235
	Notes	273
	Bibliography	309
	Index Locorum	321
	General Index	335

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691073635
• ISBN 13: 9780691073637
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 364
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