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• Thom, Paul

Titel

The Logic of Essentialism : An Interpretation of Aristotle�́�s Modal Syllogistic

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• The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy : 43

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

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• ℗ʹ0 Entering the Realm of Darkness -- One. Elementary Synta -- ℗ʹ1 Elementary forms -- ℗ʹ2 Modal opposition -- ℗ʹ3 Transformation rules: Substitution, Permutation, Reductio and Cut -- ℗ʹ4 Transformation rules: Contraction, Ecthesis -- ℗ʹ5 Transformation rules: modal reductio -- Two. Axioms -- ℗ʹ6 Axioms: X and L axioms -- ℗ʹ7 Axioms: Q axioms -- ℗ʹ8 Axioms: Q�́�, M and X�́� axioms -- Three. Theses -- ℗ʹ9 Necessity moods -- ℗ʹ10 Unampliated contingency moods -- ℗ʹ11 Ampliated contingency moods -- ℗ʹ12 Possibility moods -- ℗ʹ13 �́�Unqualified�́�moods -- Four. Rejections -- ℗ʹ14 Necessity moods -- ℗ʹ15 Unampliated contingency moods -- ℗ʹ16 Ampliated contingency moods -- ℗ʹ17 Possibility and �́�unqualified�́� moods -- Five. Flaws in the Fabric -- ℗ʹ18 Incidental mistakes -- ℗ʹ19 Substantial mistakes -- ℗ʹ20 Inconsistencies -- Six. System AL -- ℗ʹ21 Assertoric forms -- ℗ʹ22 Necessity forms
• ℗ʹ25 Alternative de re approaches: base -- ℗ʹ26 Alternative de re approaches: superstructure -- ℗ʹ27 Alternative approaches: de dicto theories -- Seven. Systems AQ and AQ�́� -- ℗ʹ28 Unampliated contingency-forms -- ℗ʹ29 Ampliated contingency-forms -- ℗ʹ30 The relation of ampliated to unampliated systems -- ℗ʹ31 Reduction to assertoric syllogistic -- ℗ʹ32 Alternative de re approaches -- ℗ʹ33 Alternative approaches: de dicto theories -- Eight. System AX�́� -- ℗ʹ34 Unqualified assertorics -- ℗ʹ35 System AX�́� -- ℗ʹ36 Reduction to assertoric syllogistic -- ℗ʹ37 A reprieve for modal reductio -- Nine. Singular Modal Syllogistic -- ℗ʹ38 System AEL5 -- ℗ʹ39 Systems AEQ5 and AEQ�́�5 -- ℗ʹ40 Alternative de re approaches -- ℗ʹ41 Reduction to assertoric syllogistic -- Ten. Essentialism -- ℗ʹ42 Varieties of essentialism -- ℗ʹ43 The essentialism of the modal syllogistic -- ℗ʹ44 Aristotle�́�s static essentialism -
• ℗ʹ46 The metaphysics of unqualified assertorics -- ℗ʹ47 Aristotelian vs. Platonic essentialism -- ℗ʹ48 Conclusions -- References and Indexes -- References -- Index locorum -- Index of axioms -- Index of rules -- Index of systems -- General index
• Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s several new lines of research have appeared, with series of original publications by Fred Johnson, Richard Patterson and Ulrich Nortmann. Johnson presented for the first time a formal semantics adequate to a de re reading of the apodeictic syllogistic; this was based on a simple intuition linking the modal syllogistic to Aristotelian metaphysics. Nortmann developed an ingenious de dicto analysis. Patterson articulated the links (both theoretical and genetic) between the modal syllogistic and the metaphysics, using an analysis which strictly speaking is neither de re nor de dicto. My own studies in this field date from 1976, when my colleague Peter Roeper and I jointly wrote a paper "Aristotle's apodeictic syllogisms" for the XXIInd History of Logic Conference in Krakow. This paper contained the disjunctive reading of particular affirmative apodeictic propositions, which I still favour. Nonetheless, I did not consider that paper's results decisive or comprehensive enough to publish, and my 1981 book The Syllogism contained no treatment of the modal syllogism. The paper's ideas lay dormant till 1989, when I read Johnson's and Patterson's initial articles. I began publishing on the topic in 1991. Gradually my thoughts acquired a certain comprehensiveness and systematicity, till in 1993 I was able to take a semester's sabbatical to write up a draft of this book