Aristotle on False Reasoning

2012-02-01 Philosophy

Author : Scott G. Schreiber
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotle on False Reasoning written by Scott G. Schreiber. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the first book-length study in English of Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations, this work takes a fresh look at this seminal text on false reasoning. Through a careful and critical analysis of Aristotle's examples of sophistical reasoning, Scott G. Schreiber explores Aristotle's rationale for his taxonomy of twelve fallacy types. Contrary to certain modern attempts to reduce all fallacious reasoning to either errors of logical form or linguistic imprecision, Aristotle insists that, as important as form and language are, certain types of false reasoning derive their persuasiveness from mistaken beliefs about the nature of language and the nature of the world.

Aristotelian Logic

1991-01-01 Philosophy

Author : William Thomas Parry
Release : 1991-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotelian Logic written by William Thomas Parry. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of an international research and development conference, Tuscon, Arizona, October 1985. One hundred and twenty-eight papers are presented in this hefty volume. They are grouped into chapters covering climate, underutilized plants, irrigation and water management, biosphere reserves, water policy, animal resources, desert ecology, crop physiology and agronomy, urban environments, desertification, land intensification, and other topics related to the economy and management of arid lands. Provides detailed treatment of topics in traditional logic: theory of terms, theory of definition, informal fallacies, and division and classification.

Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

2016-09-15 Mathematics

Author : Max Cresswell
Release : 2016-09-15
Genre : Mathematics
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Download or read book Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap written by Max Cresswell. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.

Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic

2013-11-01 Philosophy

Author : Marko Malink
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic written by Marko Malink. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle was the founder not only of logic but also of modal logic. In the Prior Analytics he developed a complex system of modal syllogistic which, while influential, has been disputed since antiquity—and is today widely regarded as incoherent. In this meticulously argued new study, Marko Malink presents a major reinterpretation of Aristotle’s modal syllogistic. Combining analytic rigor with keen sensitivity to historical context, he makes clear that the modal syllogistic forms a consistent, integrated system of logic, one that is closely related to other areas of Aristotle’s philosophy. Aristotle’s modal syllogistic differs significantly from modern modal logic. Malink considers the key to understanding the Aristotelian version to be the notion of predication discussed in the Topics—specifically, its theory of predicables (definition, genus, differentia, proprium, and accident) and the ten categories (substance, quantity, quality, and so on). The predicables introduce a distinction between essential and nonessential predication. In contrast, the categories distinguish between substantial and nonsubstantial predication. Malink builds on these insights in developing a semantics for Aristotle’s modal propositions, one that verifies the ancient philosopher’s claims of the validity and invalidity of modal inferences. Malink recognizes some limitations of this reconstruction, acknowledging that his proof of syllogistic consistency depends on introducing certain complexities that Aristotle could not have predicted. Nonetheless, Aristotle’s Modal Syllogistic brims with bold ideas, richly supported by close readings of the Greek texts, and offers a fresh perspective on the origins of modal logic.

Sophistical Refutations

2015-09-01 Religion

Author : Aristotle
Release : 2015-09-01
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Sophistical Refutations written by Aristotle. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophistical Refutations (Greek: ?????????? ???????; Latin: De Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle’s Organon in which he identified thirteen fallacies. Aeterna Press

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