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Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.19-34 (Hardcover)
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Philoponus: On Aristotle Posterior Analytics 1.19-34 (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Aristotle described the scientific explanation of universal or
general facts as deducing them through scientific demonstrations,
that is, through syllogisms that met requirements of logical
validity and explanatoriness which he first formulated. In Chapters
19-23, he adds arguments for the further logical restrictions that
scientific demonstrations can neither be indefinitely long nor
infinitely extendible through the interposition of new middle
terms. Chapters 24-26 argue for the superiority of universal over
particular demonstration, of affirmative over negative
demonstration, and of direct negative demonstration over
demonstration to the impossible. Chapters 27-34 discuss different
aspects of sciences and scientific understanding, allowing us to
distinguish between sciences, and between scientific understanding
and other kinds of cognition, especially opinion. Philoponus'
comments on these chapters are interesting especially because of
his metaphysical analysis of universal predication and his
understanding of the notion of subordinate sciences. We learn from
his commentary that Philoponus believed in Platonic Forms as
inherent in, and posterior to, the Divine Intellect, but ascribed
to Aristotle an interpretation of Plato's Forms as independent
substances, prior to the Demiurgic Intellect. A very important
notion from Aristotle's Posterior Analytics is that of the
'subordination' of sciences, i.e. the idea that some sciences
depend on 'higher' ones for some of their principles. Philoponus
goes beyond Aristotle in suggesting a taxonomy of sciences, in
which the subordinate science concerns the same scientific genus as
the superordinate, but a different species.
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