The programme of Aristotelian analytics
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https://doi.org/10.22370/rhv2017iss10pp29-59Keywords:
Aristotle, Analytics, Syllogism, ScienceAbstract
In this paper, I submit an overall interpretation of Aristotle’s Analytics (Posterior as well as Prior) which I could express, to put it in a nutshell, by saying that the Analytics are analytic. That is, they do not lay out progressive or constructive processes, in which, given certain fundamental premises, terms or rules, one would go ahead and draw conclusions or even build a systematic body of knowledge on the basis of these principles. Rather they describe a backward movement, starting from a proposed or provisional conclusion and asking which premises could (or could best) be used in order to deduce, support, prove or explain it.
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