Alexander of Aphrodisias On Aristotle Topics 1 Ancient Commentators on Aristotle 1st Edition by Johannes M Van Ophuijsen ISBN 178093873X 978-1780938738

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ISBN 10: 178093873X 

ISBN 13: 978-1780938738

Author: Johannes M Van Ophuijsen

Aristotle’s Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander’s commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since Aristotle by the rival Stoic school.

Table of contents: 

1. Preliminary remarks
2. The general view: The Topics, the Organon, and Peripatetic logic
3. General theory and practice: Some examples
4. Topoi as arkhai and stoikheia of deductive arguments
5. Note on the translation
6. Note on the Greek text

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