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Aristotle’s Hypotheses and the Euclidean Postulates

Alfonso Gómez-Lobo

Review of Metaphysics 30 (3):430 - 439 (1977)

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Aristóteles e a necessidade do conhecimento científico.Lucas Angioni - 2020 - Discurso 50 (2):193-238.details I discuss the exact meaning of the thesis according to which the object of scientific knowledge is necessary. The thesis is expressed by Aristotle in the Posterior Analytics, in his definition of scientific knowledge. The traditional interpretation understands this definition as depending on two parallel and independent requirements, the causality requirement and the necessity requirement. Against this interpretation, I try to show, through the examination of several passages that refer to the definition of scientific knowledge, that the necessity requirement specifies (...) Aristotle: Demonstration in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Necessity and Contingency in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Philosophy of Science, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Posterior Analytics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Principles in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (3 more) Export citation Bookmark 8 citations
Mathematical Generality, Letter-Labels, and All That.F. Acerbi - 2020 - Phronesis 65 (1):27-75.details This article focusses on the generality of the entities involved in a geometric proof of the kind found in ancient Greek treatises: it shows that the standard modern translation of Greek mathematical propositions falsifies crucial syntactical elements, and employs an incorrect conception of the denotative letters in a Greek geometric proof; epigraphic evidence is adduced to show that these denotative letters are ‘letter-labels’. On this basis, the article explores the consequences of seeing that a Greek mathematical proposition is fully general, (...) Classical Greek Philosophy, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download (2 more) Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
Aristotle and the necessity of scientific knowledge.Lucas Angioni - manuscriptdetails This is a translation, made by myself, of the paper to be published in Portuguese in the journal Discurso, 2020, in honour of the late professor Oswaldo Porchat. I discuss what Aristotle was trying to encode when he said that the object of scientific knowledge is necessary, or that what we know (scientifically) cannot be otherwise etc. The paper is meant as a continuation of previous papers—orientated towards a book on the Posterior Analytics—and thus does not discuss in much detail (...) Aristotle: Demonstration in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Philosophy of Science, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Posterior Analytics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Principles in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Direct download Export citation Bookmark
Fundacionalismo e silogística.Breno A. Zuppolini - 2014 - In Lucas Angioni (ed.), Lógica e Ciência em Aristóteles. Phi. pp. 161-202.details Aristotle: Demonstration in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Philosophy of Science, Misc in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Posterior Analytics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Principles in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Aristotle: Syllogistic in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy $49.00 new (collection) View on Amazon.com Direct download Export citation Bookmark

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