Aristotle's Prior Analytics book I: Translated with an introduction and commentary Clarendon Aristotle Series Bk. 1

Author	Gisela Striker
Format	Hardcover
ISBN	9780199250400
Publisher	Oxford University Press, Usa
Manufacturer	Oxford University Press, Usa

This summarization is about the book "Aristotle's Prior Analytics" by Clarendon Aristotle Series Bk. 1. The book is about Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument. The first book, to which this volume is devoted, offers a fairly coherent presentation of Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument.

Aristotle's Prior Analytics marks the beginning of formal logic. For Aristotle himself, this meant the discovery of a general theory of valid deductive argument, a project that he had described as either impossible or impracticable, probably not very long before he actually came up with syllogistic reasoning. A syllogism is the inferring of one proposition from two others of a particular form, and it is the subject of the Prior Analytics. The first book, to which this volume is devoted, offers a fairly coherent presentation of Aristotle's logic as a general theory of deductive argument.