Analyses of Aristotle

• Main Author: Hintikka, Jaakko. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Series: Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers ; 6
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Epistemology.; Ontology.; History of Philosophy.; History, general.; Classical Philosophy.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Aristotle thought of his logic and methodology as applications of the Socratic questioning method. In particular, logic was originally a study of answers necessitated by earlier answers. For Aristotle, thought-experiments were real experiments in the sense that by realizing forms in one's mind,...

Table of Contents:

• On AristotleỚ"s Notion of Existence
• Semantical Games, the Alleged Ambiguity of ỚSIsỚ<U+00fd>, and Aristotelian Categories
• AristotleỚ"s Theory of Thinking and Its Consequences for His Methodology
• On the Role of Modality in AristotleỚ"s Metaphysics
• On the Ingredients of An Aristotelian Science
• Aristotelian Axiomatics and Geometrical Axiomotics
• Aristotelian Induction
• Aristotelian Explanations
• AristotleỚ"s Incontinent Logician
• On the Development of AristotleỚ"s Ideas of Scientific Method and the Structure of Science
• What Was Aristotle Doing in His Early Logic, Anyway? A Reply to Woods and Hansen
• Concepts of Scientific Method from Aristotle to Newton
• The Fallacy of Fallacies
• Socratic Questioning, Logic and Rhetoric.