| 期刊全称 | Aristotle‘s Modal Proofs | | 期刊简称 | Prior Analytics A8-2 | | 影响因子2023 | Adriane Rini | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Makes Aristotle’s system of modal syllogistic logic easily accessible to logicians and other logic savvy readers.Uses standard predicate logic translations with (exclusively) de re modality to represe | | 学科分类 | The New Synthese Historical Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | Aristotle’s modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning about necessity and possibility. Many scholars think the modal syllogistic is incoherent, a ‘realm of darkness’. Others think it is coherent, but devise complicated formal modellings to mimic Aristotle’s results. This volume provides a simple interpretation of Aristotle’s modal syllogistic using standard predicate logic. Rini distinguishes between red terms, such as ‘horse’, ‘plant’ or ‘man’, which name things in virtue of features those things must have, and green terms, such as ‘moving’, which name things in virtue of their non-necessary features. By applying this distinction to the .Prior Analytics., Rini shows how traditional interpretive puzzles about the modal syllogistic melt away and the simple structure of Aristotle’s own proofs is revealed. The result is an applied logic which provides needed links between Aristotle’s views of science and logical demonstration. The volume is particularly valuable to researchers and students of the history of logic, Aristotle’s theory of modality, and the philosophy of logic in general. | | Pindex | Book 2011 |
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