AuthorHintikka, Jaakko. author
TitleAnalyses of Aristotle [electronic resource] / by Jaakko Hintikka
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2041-4
Descript XII, 238 p. online resource

SUMMARY

Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind, one can read off their properties and interrelations. Treating forms as independent entities, knowable one by one, committed Aristotle to his mode of syllogistic explanation. He did not think of existence, predication and identity as separate senses of estin. Aristotle thus serves as an example of a thinker who did not rely on the distinction between the allegedly different Fregean senses, thereby shedding new light on our own conceptual presuppositions. This collection comprises several striking interpretations that Jaakko Hintikka has put forward over the years, constituting a challenge not only to Aristotelian scholars and historians of ideas, but to everyone interested in logic, epistemology or metaphysics and in their history


CONTENT

On Aristotleโs Notion of Existence -- Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of โIsโ, and Aristotelian Categories -- Aristotleโs Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology -- On the Role of Modality in Aristotleโs Metaphysics -- On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science -- Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics -- Aristotelian Induction -- Aristotelian Explanations -- Aristotleโs Incontinent Logician -- On the Development of Aristotleโs Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science -- What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen -- Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton -- The Fallacy of Fallacies -- Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. History
  3. Philosophy
  4. Ancient
  5. Epistemology
  6. Ontology
  7. Philosophy
  8. History of Philosophy
  9. History
  10. general
  11. Classical Philosophy
  12. Epistemology
  13. Ontology