Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.14-22 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle)

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.14-22 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) image
ISBN-10:

1472558480

ISBN-13:

9781472558480

Author(s): Mueller, Ian
Released: Apr 10, 2014
Format: Paperback, 270 pages
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The commentary of Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's Prior Analytics 1.8-22 is a very important text, being the main ancient commentary with chapters in which Aristotle invented modal logic - the logic of propositions about what is necessary or contingent (possible). The first volume of Ian Mueller's translation covered chapters 1.8-13, and reached as far as the chapter in which Aristotle discussed the notion of contingency. In this, the second volume, the 'greatest' commentator, Alexander, concludes his discussion of Aristotle's modal logic.
Aristotle also invented the syllogism, a style of argument involving two premises and a conclusion. Modal propositions can be deployed in syllogisms, and in the chapters included in this volume Aristotle discusses all the syllogisms containing at least one contingent premiss.
In each volume, Ian Mueller provides a comprehensive explanation of Alexander's commentary on modal logic as a whole.












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