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Aristotle's First Principles (Clarendon Paperbacks)

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Exploring Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, Irwin here shows how Aristotle defends dialectic against the objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims. He focuses particularly on Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics, stressing the connections between doctrines that are often discussed separately. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarendon Press


Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 31, 1990


Edition ‏ : ‎ Revised ed.


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 720 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198242905


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 01


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.64 x 9.21 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #1,706,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,375 in Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy


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    • Excellent work on the subject
This is an excellent work on Aristotle's first principles by a well-known scholar in the field. I honestly cannot make out what the other reviewer here on Amazon (who calls the work a "farse" - it is actually "farce") has in mind or by what means such a judgment has been made. As a professional philosopher working on related issues in the field, I personally recommend this work as well as all of the works of Dr. Irwin. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2019 by Jason Costanzo
    • Is this an honest work or a farse Aristotle's First Principles
In Chapter one section four (Puzzles About Dialectic) To begin our investigation we have a statement that. "Realists must allow the logical possibility of the truth of scepticism, since they take truth to consist in the correspondence of beliefs to some reality that is logically independent of them; this logical independence implies the logical possibility that all our beliefs are false. and therefore leaves logical room for the sceptical doubt to be correct. Any justification appealing to coherence between beliefs seems to leave room for sceptical doubt; and it has sometimes seemed that only beliefs immune to doubt could be reasonable foundations for realist claims. The search for beliefs immune to doubt leads naturally to a foundationalist conception of justification, according to which all inferential justification depends on beliefs that are non-inferentially justified and self-evident." First the author fails to make a distinction between beliefs and inferences. Second considering this statement "this logical independence implies the logical possibility that all our beliefs are false". What he should have said is "this logical independence implies the logical possibility that all our inferences are false" after all we are talking about aristotle the father of the science of logic. Lets examine that proposition which takes the form of all S are P. Now lets assume that this proposition is true, the equivalent to this statement is all S are not non-P. If we take the negation of false (non-P) represents a true inference then our statement would read all our inferences are not true which is equivalent to all our inferences are false. Now if we take the negation of all S are not non-P we get no S are non-P or none of our inferences are true. We can see that the statement all of our inferences are false and none of our inferences are true agree with one another. Now that we have established the proposition that none of our inferences are true as a true proposition we have to ask the question are any of our inferences true, and we find that the answer is yes that the inference that none of our inferences are true is established as a true proposition (inference). Now what we have have is not one proposition but two propositions. First we have one proposition that none of our inferences are true Which takes the form No S are P. Our second proposition is that at least one of our inferences is in fact true, namely the E propisition No S are P. This second would take the form that some of our inferences (at least one) are true. Thus we have the I Proposition Some S are P. Now If we look at the square of opposition modern or traditional we find that these two propositions contradict one another. It seems that this author is woefully ignorant to logic formal or traditional. I gave it two stars because to the true student of logic there will always be some valuable information to be found but to the novice this is a terrible way to start. The best books on logic are old out of print books found on google books. Recently Some of these books are being reproduced on a small scale. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2014 by Danny Somerby

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