Hypothetical Syllogistic and Stoic Logic

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BRILL, 2001 - 143 páginas
This volume traces the development of Aristotle's hypothetical syllogistic through antiquity, and shows for the first time how it later became misidentified with the logic of the rival Stoic school. By charting the origins of this error, the book illuminates elements of Aristotelian logic that have been obscured for almost two thousand years, and raises important issues concerning the distinctive roles of semantic and syntactic analysis in theories of logical consequence. The first chapters of the book deal with the original Aristotelian hypothetical syllogistic, and explain how Aristotle's later followers began to conflate it with Stoic logic. The final chapters examine in detail the two most crucial surviving treatments of the subject, Boethius's "On hypothetical syllogisms and On Cicero's Topics," which carried this conflation into the Middle Ages.

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The Greek Commentators on Aristotle
35
On hypothetical syllogisms
67
On Ciceros Topics
101
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Anthony N. Speca, Ph.D. (1999) in Philosophy, University of Toronto, is a Senior Associate in the Sydney office of The Boston Consulting Group, an international management consultancy.

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