Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic /

Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic / / Marko Malink.

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Aristotle was the founder not only of logic but also of modal logic. In the Prior Analytics he developed a complex system of modal syllogistic which, while influential, has been disputed since antiquity--and is today widely regarded as incoherent. Combining analytic rigor with keen sensitivity to hi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Malink, Marko,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 46 line illustrations, 18 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations of Aristotle's Works
  • Introduction
  • 1. Categorical Propositions
  • 2. The dictum de omni
  • 3. The Orthodox dictum Semantics
  • 4. The Heterodox dictum Semantics
  • 5. The Preorder Semantics
  • 6. Ecthesis
  • 7. The Apodeictic dictum de omni
  • 8. Barbara NXN and the Four Predicables
  • 9. Categories in the Topics
  • 10. Essence Terms and Substance Terms
  • 11. Universal Negative Necessity Propositions
  • 12. Particular Necessity Propositions
  • 13. Modal Opposition
  • 14. Establishing Inconcludence
  • 15. A Deductive System for the Modal Syllogistic
  • 16. The Validity of XQM-Moods
  • 17. Two-Sided Possibility Propositions
  • 18. One-Sided Possibility Propositions
  • Appendix A: Aristotle's Claims of Validity, Invalidity, and Inconcludence
  • Appendix B: The Predicable Semantics of the Modal Syllogistic
  • Appendix C: Aristotle's Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Passages
  • Index of Subjects

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