Overview
- Makes Aristotle’s system of modal syllogistic logic easily accessible to logicians and other logic savvy readers
- Uses standard predicate logic translations with (exclusively) de re modality to represent Aristotle's Greek
- Contains a line-by-line discussion of every modal syllogism in the Prior Analytics
- Distinguishes between two kinds of syllogistic terms to simplify Aristotle's modal logic
Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 68)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Modern Methods for Ancient Logic
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Contingency in the Syllogistic:An. Pr. 13-22
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Book Title: Aristotle's Modal Proofs
Book Subtitle: Prior Analytics A8-22 in Predicate Logic
Authors: Adriane Rini
Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0050-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0049-9Published: 18 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3467-8Published: 27 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0050-5Published: 13 December 2010
Series ISSN: 1879-8578
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 246
Topics: History of Philosophy, Logic, Classical Philosophy