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Scientific work by Aristotle
The Posterior Analytics is a text from Aristotle's Organon that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. The demonstration is distinguished as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge, while the definition marked as the statement of a thing's nature, ... a statement of the meaning of the name, or of an equivalent nominal formula. Wikipedia →
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- Read the landmark paper: The Meaning of NOYΣ in the Posterior AnalyticsCited 22 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Meaning of NOYΣ in the Posterior Analytics
The Origin and Aim of Posterior Analytics II.19
Themistius' Paraphrasis of the Posterior Analytics in Gerard of Cremona's Translation
Coming to Know Principles in Posterior Analytics II 19
Posterior Analytics and the Definition of Happiness in NE I
Aristotelian Epagoge in Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1
A Note on Commensurate Universals in the Posterior Analytics
Episteme, demonstration, and explanation: A fresh look at Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
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How artificial intelligence leads to knowledge why: An inquiry inspired by Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Corporeity, corpus-substantia, and corpus-quantum in Grosseteste’s Commentaries on the Physics and Posterior Analytics
'Intentio Aristotelis in hoc libro'. Structure and Composition of the Posterior Analytics According to Robert Grosseteste
Definition and demonstration in Aristotle, Posterior Analytics II 1-7
Definition and demonstration in Aristotle, Posterior Analytics II 1-7
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Analysis analyticorvm posteriorvm sive librorvm Aristotelis de demonstratione ...Griffith Powell · 1594
- 📕Commento agli Analitici posteriori di AristoteleThomas Aquinas, Daniele Didero · 2015
- 📕Latein. uebersetzungen der aristotelischen Analytica PosterioraBaeumker, Clemens · 1915
- 📕Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-burhānAverroës · 1982
- 📕Iacobi Zabarellae Patavini In dvos Aristotelis libros Posteriores analyticos commentariiJacopo Zabarella, Cristoforo Maurizio · 1582
- 📕Apollinaris Offredi Cremonensis Absolvtissima commentaria, vnà cvm qvaestionibvs in primvm Aristotelis Posteriorum analyticorum librumApollinare Offredi, Giovanni Antonio Onorati · 1581
- 📕Apollinaris Expositio in primum Posteriorum Aristotelis cum questionibus eiusde[m]Apollinaris Offredus · 1497
- 📕[Expositio in libros Posteriorum Aristotelis]Paolo Veneto · 1477
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