This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Aristotle s on interpretation is a logically organized and written work of fourteen parts. Aristotles categories is a singularly important work of philosophy. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in arisotle s system. Here follow links to the basic texts, see further from the right menu. Books by aristotle sorted by popularity project gutenberg. It is necessary however that every enunciative sentence should be from a verb, or from the case of a verb, for the definition of man, unless is, or was, or will be, or something of this kind, be added, is not yet an enunciative sentence. Translated with an introduction and notes by zimmermann f. Sep 20, 2019 modern logicians have complained that aristotelian logic lacks a distinction between predication including negation and assertion, and that predication, according to the aristotelians, implies assertion. It is from this perspective, and not for their own sake, that the theory also addresses itself to the minimum semantic components of assertions, names and verbs. But for now i merely reproduce, for those who would like a glimpse of the first revolutionary text in the area.
The document was originally written to help engender clarity in the written and spoken. Abbreviations of aristotles works oxford handbooks. Peri hermeneias, the second text in the traditional arrangement of the organon excepting porphyry s eisagoge. Prior analytics two books, containing the theory of syllogistic described below. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in aristotle s system, basing this view upon a detailed chapterbychapter analysis. Published for the british academy by oxford university press, 1981. From this page you may visit the seabattle hub, which spins you off to all relevant material on the matter textual commentary, philosophical importance, revolutionary significance, and so on. Ross organon i a categories 2 organon ii on interpretation 47 organon iii prior analytics 81 organon iv posterior analytics 221 organon v a topics 326 organon vi on sophistical refutations 533 physics 602 on the heavens 852 on generation and corruption 952 meteorology 1 033.
On interpretation wikisource, the free online library. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Books by aristotle sorted by popularity project gutenberg books by aristotle sorted by popularity. It not only ackrill finds aristotles division of quality at best unmotivated. On interpretation has been divided into the following sections.
Contradiction and dialectic oxford aristotle studies series kindle edition by whitaker, c. The internet classics archive on interpretation by aristotle. Aristotle works translated under the editorship of w. Aristotle on heuristic inquiry and demonstration of what it is alteration and persistence. The second book in aristotle s organon and a relatively short. A download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. London, oxford university press for the british academy, 1981. Clarendon aristotle series aristotles politics, books iii and iv translated with introduction and. Project gutenberg offers 61,776 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone.
Aristotle s on interpretation is still studied by philosophers today and seen as a great foundation of logic. The commentary is quite good, and as usual, ackrill writes very clearly. The present paper addresses the question of whether this criticism can be levelled against aristotles logic. Ackrill fellow of brasenose college oxford oxford at the clarendon press oxford university press, ely house, london w. Aristotle 384322 bce was a greek philosopher born in greece. The organization of the text is iterative, building from the most basic. I have highlighted in red italics aristotle s two references to a seabattle.
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