书目名称 | The Logic of Essentialism |
副标题 | An Interpretation of |
编辑 | Paul Thom |
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丛书名称 | The New Synthese Historical Library |
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描述 | Aristotle‘s modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the apodeictic syllogistic; this was based on a simple intuition linking the modal syllogistic to Aristotelian metaphysics. Nortmann developed an ingenious de dicto analysis. Patterson articulated the links (both theoretical and genetic) between the modal syllogistic and the metaphysics, using an analysis which strictly speaking is neither de re nor de dicto. My own studies in this field date from 1976, when my colleague Peter Roeper and I jointly wrote a paper "Aristotle‘s apodeictic syllogisms" for the XXIInd History of Logic Conference in Krakow. This paper contained the disjunctive reading of particular affirmative apodeictic propositions, which I still favour. Nonetheless, I did not consider that paper‘s results decisive or comprehensive e |
出版日期 | Book 1996 |
关键词 | Aristotle; Plato; logic; metaphysics |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1663-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-7244-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-1663-0Series ISSN 1879-8578 Series E-ISSN 2352-2585 |
issn_series | 1879-8578 |
copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996 |