Stoic logic (second ed.)
โ Scribed by Benson Mates
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 154
- Edition
- second
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Preface......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 5
The problem......Page 7
Stoic authors to be considered......Page 11
Sources for Stoic logic......Page 14
Exposition of the Stoic theory......Page 17
Comparison with modern theories......Page 25
Propositions......Page 33
Truth......Page 39
Necessity and possibility......Page 42
Implication......Page 48
Disjunction......Page 57
Conjunction and the other logical connectives......Page 60
The interdefinability of the connectives......Page 61
Definition and classification......Page 64
The five basic types of undemonstrated argument......Page 73
The principle of conditionalization......Page 80
The analysis of nonsimple arguments......Page 83
Invalid arguments; paradoxes......Page 88
The judgments of Prantl and Zeller......Page 92
The confusion about ฯฯ
ฮฝฮทฮผฮผฮญฮฝฮฟฮฝ......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 99
Sextus Empiricus......Page 101
Diogenes Laertius......Page 118
Galen......Page 122
Miscellaneous......Page 128
Glossary......Page 138
Editions......Page 143
Works......Page 144
Index to passages cited or translated......Page 147
General index......Page 151
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<p>Benson Mates (1919-2009) received his B.A. at the University of Oregon in 1941. His graduate study at Cornell University was interrupted by the Second World War, and he completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1948. Quoting the obituary written by Barry Stroud and
This volume traces the development of Aristotle's hypothetical syllogistic through antiquity, and shows for the first time how it later became misidentified with the logic of the rival Stoic school. By charting the origins of this error, the book illuminates elements of Aristotelian logic that have