Posterior Analytics
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Posterior Analytics is Aristotle’s foundational philosophical treatise on scientific knowledge, demonstration, and the nature of explanation.
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- Organon ×1
- Organon by Aristotle ×1
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| instanceOf |
Aristotelian work
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logical work → philosophical treatise → work on epistemology → |
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Aristotle
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Peripatetic school
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certainty in science
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hierarchy of scientific propositions → knowledge through causes → role of universals in science → |
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4th century BCE
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| defines |
demonstration as a syllogism producing scientific knowledge
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scientific knowledge as knowledge through causes → |
| discusses |
conditions of scientific demonstration
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demonstration versus dialectic → demonstration versus experience → induction as a route to first principles → intuition (nous) of first principles → relation between knowledge and truth → structure of scientific explanation → |
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Book I
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Book II → |
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causal knowledge
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definition → demonstration → epistēmē → explanation → first principles → scientific knowledge → scientific method → syllogistic reasoning → |
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Ἀναλυτικὰ ὕστερα
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Islamic philosophy of science
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Latin scholasticism → conceptions of scientific explanation → early modern philosophy of science → medieval Aristotelian philosophy → |
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demonstrative syllogism
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four causes in explanatory context → middle term → necessary connection → |
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Ancient Greek
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Organon
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Categories
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Metaphysics → Prior Analytics → Topics → |
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Later Analytics
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Prior Analytics
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Aristotle
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Prior Analytics
("Organon")
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Novum Organum
("Organon by Aristotle")
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