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The Logic of Essentialism. An Interpretation of Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic.
Paul Thom
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Hardback. This work surveys the major interpretations, ancient, medieval and modern, of Aristotle's "modal syllogistic". It reads Aristotle's modal sentences "de re", and attaches considerable importance to his use of ecthesis and counter-examples. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 714.
Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the apodeictic syllogistic; this was based on a simple intuition linking the modal syllogistic to Aristotelian metaphysics. Nortmann developed an ingenious de dicto analysis. Patterson articulated the links (both ... Read more
Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the apodeictic syllogistic; this was based on a simple intuition linking the modal syllogistic to Aristotelian metaphysics. Nortmann developed an ingenious de dicto analysis. Patterson articulated the links (both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
The New Synthese Historical Library
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792339878
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V9780792339878
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