Aristotle's Demonstrative Logic
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Aristotle’s Demonstrative Logic
Demonstrative logic, the study of demonstration as opposed to persuasion, is the subject of Aristotle’s twovolume Analytics. Many examples are geometrical. Demonstration produces knowledge (of the truth of propositions). Persuasion merely produces opinion. Aristotle presented a general truth-and-consequence conception of demonstration meant to apply to all demonstrations. According to him, a de...
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عنوان ژورنال: History and Philosophy of Logic
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0144-5340,1464-5149
DOI: 10.1080/01445340802228362