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Posterior Analytics
Overview
The Posterior Analytics (Ancient Greek: Ἀναλυτικὰ Ὕστερα; Latin: Analytica Posteriora) is a text from Aristotle's Organon that deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. The demonstration is distinguished as a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge, while the definition marked as the statement of a thing's nature, ... a statement of the meaning of the name, or of an equivalent nominal formula.
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Philosophers who discussed Posterior Analytics
- Avicenna
- Alexander of Aphrodisias
- Al-Farabi
- Jonathan Barnes
- Thomas Aquinas
- John Philoponus
- Aristotle
- Averroes
- Themistius
- Robert Grosseteste
- Henry of Ghent
- Jacopo Zabarella
- Elias (Greek scholar)
Related ideas
- Ancient Greek
- Topics (Aristotle)
- Latin
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Science
- Aristotle
- Logical consequence
- Syllogism
- Prior Analytics
- Organon
- Definition
- Quiddity
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of logic.