Posterior Analytics (Owen‪)‬

Posterior Analytics (Owen)

Aristotle, Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology (384 BCE-322 BCE)


This ebook presents «Posterior Analytics (Owen)», from Aristotle. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Book 1. Posterior Analytics

- Chapter 1. Upon The Nature Of Demonstration

- Chapter 2. Of Knowledge, And Demonstration, And Its Elements

- Chapter 3. Refutation Of Certain Opinions As To Science And Demonstration

- Chapter 4. Upon The Terms "every," "per Se," And "universal"

- Chapter 5. Of Errors About The Primary Universal

- Chapter 6. Demonstration Consists Of Principles Per Se; And Of A Necessary Medium

- Chapter 7. That We May Not Demonstrate By Passing From One Genus To Another

- Chapter 8. Things Which Are Subject To Change Are Incapable Of Demonstration Per Se

- Chapter 9. That The Demonstration Of A Thing Ought To Proceed From Its Own Appropriate Principles

- Chapter 10. Of The Definition And Division Of Principles

- Chapter 11. Of Certain Common Principles Of All Sciences

- Chapter 12. Of Syllogistic Interrogation

- Chapter 13. The Difference Between Science, "that" A Thing Is, And "why" It Is

- Chapter 14. The First Figure Most Suitable To Science

- Chapter 15. Of Immediate Negative Propositions

- Chapter 16. Of Ignorance, According To Corrupt Position Of The Terms, Where There Are No Media

- Chapter 17. Continuation Of The Same With Media

- Chapter 18. Of The Dependence Of Universals Upon Induction, And Of The Latter Upon Sense

- Chapter 19. Of The Principles Of Demonstration, Whether They Are Finite Or Infinite

- Chapter 20. Of Finite Media

- Chapter 21. It Is Shown That There Are No Infinite Media In Negative Demonstration

- Chapter 22. That There Are No Infinite Media In Affirmative Demonstration

- Chapter 23. Certain Corollaries

- Chapter 24. The Superiority Of Universal To Particular Demonstration Proved

- Chapter 25. The Superiority Of Affirmative To Negative Demonstration Proved

- Chapter 26. The Superiority Of The Same To Demonstration Ad Impossible Proved

- Chapter 27. Upon The Nature Of More Accurate Science

- Chapter 28. What Constitutes One, And What Different Sciences

- Chapter 29. That There May Be Several Demonstrations Of The Same Thing

- Chapter 30. That There Is No Science Of The Fortuitous

- Chapter 31. That We Do Not Possess Scientific Knowledge Through Sensation

- Chapter 32. On The Difference Of Priniciples According To The Diversity Of Syllogisms

- Chapter 33. Upon The Difference Between Science And Opinion

- Chapter 34. Of Sagacity

- Book Ii. Posterior Analytics

- Chapter 1. That The Subjects Of Scientific Investigation Are Four

- Chapter 2. That All Investigation Has Reference To The Discovery Of The Middle Term

- Chapter 3. Upon The Difference Between Demonstration And Definition

- Chapter 4. That The Definition Of A Thing Cannot Be Demonstrated

- Chapter 5. That There Is No Conclusion By Divisions Proved

- Chapter 6. Case Of One Proposition Defining The Definition Itself

- Chapter 7. That What A Thing Is Can Neither Be Known By Demonstration Nor By Definition

- Chapter 8. Of The Logical Syllogism Of What A Thing Is

- Chapter 9. Of Certain Natures Or Principles Incapable Of Demonstration

- Chapter 10. Upon Definition And Its Kinds

- Chapter 11. Of Causes And Their Demonstration

- Chapter 12. Upon The Causes Of The Present, Past, And Future

- Chapter 13. Upon The Method Of Investigating Definition

- Chapter 14. Rules For Problems

- Chapter 15. Of Identical Problems

- Chapter 16. Of Causes And Effects

- Chapter 17. Extension Of The Same Subject

- Chapter 18. Observation Upon Cause To Singulars

- Chapter 19. Upon The Method And Habit Necessary To The Ascertainment Of Principles