Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Aristotle's Posterior Analytics elaborates for the first time in the history of Western philosophy the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists posses. His model is mathematics and his treatment of science amounts to a philosophical discussion, from the perspective or Aristotelian syllogistic, of mathematical proofs and the principles they are based on. Chapters 1-8 expound the foundations of Aristotle's theory, pointing out the similarities and differences between scientific knowledge and other types of knowledge, establishing the need for basic principles, and identifying the types of principles and the source of necessity associated with scientific facts." "Philoponus' massive commentary, the most complete ancient discussion of Posterior Analytics book, offers uniquely valuable testimony to the way this book was read and understood in late antiquity, as well as providing information on earlier interpretations. Of particular interest is Philoponus' account of scientific principles, which is based not only on Aristotle but also on the Greek mathematical tradition, especially Euclid and his commentator Proclus."--Jacket.

Aristotle. Posterior analytics. --- Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800. --- Logic -- Early works to 1800. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Aristotle. --- Philoponus, John, --- Philosophy of science --- Theory of knowledge --- Aristotle --- Logique --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Philosophie --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Aristote, --- Aristote (0384-0322 av. J.-C.). --- Critique et interprétation --- Théorie de la connaissance --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Aristote

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Categories (Philosohy) --- Aristotle. --- Categoriae (Aristotle) --- Metaphysics --- Logic --- Aristotle --- Categories (Philosophy)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Perception (Philosophy) --- Sense (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Senses and sensation --- Aristotle. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Aristotle

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution. His commentary is translated here without the previously translated excursus, the Corollary on Void, previously translated in the series. Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void never occurs in fact. Philoponus' arguement was later to be praised by Galileo."--Bloomsbury Publishing Philoponus has been identified as the founder in dynamics of the theory of impetus, an inner force impressed from without, which, in its later recurrence, has been hailed as a scientific revolution. His commentary is translated here without the previously translated excursus, the Corollary on Void, also available in this series. Philoponus rejects Aristotle's attack on the very idea of void and of the possibility of motion in it, even though he thinks that void never occurs in fact. Philoponus' argument was later to be praised by Galileo. This volume contains the first English translation of Philoponus' commentary, as well as a detailed introduction, extensive explanatory notes and a bibliography.

Physics --- Place (Philosophy) --- Science, Ancient. --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- Philosophy --- History --- Aristotle. --- Space and time --- Space of more than three dimensions --- Space-time --- Space-time continuum --- Space-times --- Spacetime --- Time and space --- Fourth dimension --- Infinite --- Metaphysics --- Space sciences --- Time --- Beginning --- Hyperspace --- Relativity (Physics) --- Physique --- Early works to 1800 --- Philosophie --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Philosophy of nature --- Aristotle --- Philoponus, John, --- In Aristotelis Physicorum commentaria (Philoponus, John) --- Physics (Aristotle) --- In Physicorum III (Philoponus, John) --- Eis to 3. tēs Aristotelous Physikēs akroaseōs (Philoponus, John) --- Physica (Aristoteles) --- Physica (Aristotle) --- Aristotle's Physics (Aristotle) --- De auditione physica (Aristotle) --- De natura aut de rerum principiis (Aristotle) --- De auditu physico (Aristotle) --- Physicae auscultationis libri VIII (Aristotle) --- Philosophia naturalis (Aristotle) --- De naturali auditu (Aristotle) --- Aristotelis Naturalis auscultationis librum VIII (Aristotle) --- Naturalis auscultationis librum VIII (Aristotle) --- Aristotelis physica (Aristotle) --- Philosophie. --- Aristote

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Medieval Greek literature