Definition through Demonstration: The Two Types of Syllogisms in Posterior Analytics II.8

Phronesis 40 (3):241-264 (1995)
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This paper highlights an important distinction underlying the possibility of inquiry, between first _identifying the subject of inquiry and ultimately _explaining it: that the former can be achieved before and without the latter is a presupposition of inquiry. I believe Aristotle is keenly aware of this in _Posterior Analytics, II.8, where he shows how a scientific demonstration can "manifest" a definition. I argue that such a demonstration consists of two sorts of syllogisms, one identifying the definiendum, the other explaining it. Further, this distinction is tied in crucial ways to two others: between existence and essence, and between particular and universal

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