Aristotle's Topics / / by Paul Slomkowski.

This work deals with Aristotle's Topics , a textbook on how to argue successfully in a debate organised in a certain way. The origins of the three branches of logic can be found here: logic of propositions, of predicates and of relations. Having dealt with the structure of the dialectical debat...

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Superior document:Philosophia antiqua, v. 74
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1997.
Year of Publication:1997
Language:English
Series:Philosophia Antiqua 74.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 218 pages).
Notes:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford, 1994.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • DIALECTICAL DEBATES
  • WHAT IS A TOPOS?
  • PREDICABLES AND THE SPECIAL STATUS OF SUMBEBEKOS
  • HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISMS—THE MAIN FORM OF ARGUMENTS IN THE TOPICS
  • SELECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE TOPOI
  • SUMMARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GREEK-ENGLISH GLOSSARY
  • INDEX OF PASSAGES
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA: A SERIES OF STUDIES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY by J. MANSFELD , D.T. RUNIA and J.C.M. VAN WINDEN.