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Work of Aristotle pertaining to logic
The Prior Analytics is a work by Aristotle on reasoning, known as syllogistic, composed around 350 BC. Being one of the six extant Aristotelian writings on logic and scientific method, it is part of what later Peripatetics called the Organon. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Prior AnalyticsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Discovery of Principles in Prior Analytics 1.30Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Talkhīṣ al-Qiyās li-ArisṭūThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Aristotle'sPrior Analyticsand Boole'sLaws of ThoughtCited 36 times
- Go sideways: Term logicA closely related topic
- Go sideways: SyllogismA closely related topic
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Aristotle'sPrior Analyticsand Boole'sLaws of Thought
The Beginnings of Formal Logic: Deduction in Aristotle’s Topics vs. Prior Analytics
Completion, reduction and analysis: three proof-theoretic processes in aristotle’sprior analytics
Aristotelian Epagoge in Prior Analytics 2. 21 and Posterior Analytics 1. 1
Elias On the Prior Analytics
‘ΠΡΟΤΑΣΙΣ’ in Aristotle’s Prior Analytics
Aristotle's Use of Examples in the Prior Analytics
Proof by Assumption of the Possible in Prior Analytics 1.15
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Talkhīṣ al-Qiyās li-ArisṭūAverroës · 1988
- 📕Commentary on Aristotle, ›Prior Analytics‹Leon Leon Magentenos, Nikos Agiotis · 2021
Al-Farabi, SyllogismMichael Griffin, Richard Sorabji · 2020- 📕Aristotle's theory of the syllogismGünther Patzig · 1969
- 📕Talkhīṣ kitāb al-QiyāsAverroës · 1983
- 📕Robert Kilwardby, Notule Libri Priorum, Part 1Paul Thom, John Scott · 2015
- 📕Interpretationen der Beweismethoden in der Syllogistik des AristotelesMartin Drechsler · 2005
- 📕Die aristotelische SyllogistikGünther Patzig · 1959
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