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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Prior Analytics 1.32-46 - (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) by Alexander Of Aphrodisias (Paperback)
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Highlights
- The last 14 chapters of book 1 of Aristotle's "Prior Analytics" are concerned with the representation in the formal language of syllogistic of propositions and arguments expressed in more or less everyday Greek.
- About the Author: Ian Mueller is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.
- 240 Pages
- Philosophy, History & Surveys
- Series Name: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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About the Book
Explains some of Aristotle's more opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian ideas in semantics and the philosophy of language. It provides an insight into the way in which these disciplines developed in the Hellenistic era. He also shows a more sophisticated understanding of these fields than Aristotle himself.
Book Synopsis
The last 14 chapters of book 1 of Aristotle's "Prior Analytics" are concerned with the representation in the formal language of syllogistic of propositions and arguments expressed in more or less everyday Greek. In his commentary on those chapters, "Alexander of Aphrodisias" explains some of Aristotle's more opaque assertions and discusses post-Aristotelian ideas in semantics and the philosophy of language. In doing so he provides an unusual insight into the way in which these disciplines developed in the Hellenistic era. He also shows a more sophisticated understanding of these fields than Aristotle himself, while remaining a staunch defender of Aristotle's emphasis on meaning as opposed to Stoics concern with verbal formulation. In his commentary on the final chapter of book 1 Alexander offers a thorough discussion of Aristotle's distinction between denying that something is, for example, white and asserting that it is non-white.
About the Author
Ian Mueller is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, USA.