Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number
B440.A5 S77 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
160
Summary
"Aristotle's Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle himself, this meant the discovery of a general theory of valid deductive argument, a project that he had described as either impossible or impracticable, probably not very long before he actually came up with syllogistic reasoning. Syllogism is the subject of the Prior Analytics, and the first book, to which this volume is devoted, offers a fairly coherent presentation of Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument."--BOOK JACKET.
