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Aristotle’s logic and theory of science have been handed down to us in two texts that are nowadays called Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics, respectively. But Aristotle himself usually refers both to his logic and his theory of science as “analytics” (e.g., Top. VIII.11, 162a11–12; Met. Z.12, 1037b8–9; EN VI.3, 1139b27; Rh.
BEING, NATURE, AND LIFE IN ARISTOTLE. This volume of essays explores major connected themes in Aristo-tle’s metaphysics, philosophy of nature, and ethics, especially themes related to essence, definition, teleology, activity, potentiality, and the highest good.
This paper discusses the relation between νοῦς (the knowledge of scientific principles) and ἐπιστήμη ἀποδεικτική (the knowledge of demonstrable truths) in Aristotle's philosophy of science.
Aristotle is one of the richest and most comprehensive scientic geniuses that has ever appeared,—a man to whom no time has an equal. [For he] has penetrated into the whole mass and all sides of the real universe and has subjected their wealth and dispersion to the concept; and most philosophical sciences owe
Aristotle’s doctrine of matter with that of Descartes, Boscovich and Kant, in order to get a perspective on the philosophical thinking that parallels the development of modern science.
INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Miran Epstein. Chapter Contents. The metaphysical basis of science. The object of scientific inquiry. The epistemic possibility of objects. The nature of a scientific object. The objectives of science. Explanations in general.
objective order of things, the truth of our knowledge in his view, depends. He takes an objective view when he tells us (Met. VIII. c. IO)1 that that which is, in the strictest sense, entity, is what is true or false, and that, in the case of things, this consists in com position or division.
