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.
- | Author: Gisela Striker
- | Publisher: OUP Oxford
- | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 290 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0199250413
- | ISBN-13: 9780199250417
