This paper argues that the traditional description of Aristotelian logic as a “tool” (organon) philosophy corresponds to instrumental role Aristotle’s logical investigations in context dialectical debates and scientific inquiry. Aristotle investigates propositions their mutual relations within arguments provide tool for discovery premisses which could serve refute or establish conclusion regard...

I show that Aristotelian physics is a correct and non-intuitive approximation of Newtonian physics in the suitable domain (motion in fluids), in the same technical sense in which Newton theory is an approximation of Einstein’s theory. Aristotelian physics lasted long not because it became dogma, but because it is a very good empirically grounded theory. The observation suggests some general con...

The näıve idea of “size” for collections seems to obey both to Aristotle’s Principle: “the whole is greater than its parts” and to Cantor’s Principle: “1-to-1 correspondences preserve size”. Notoriously, Aristotle’s and Cantor’s principles are incompatible for infinite collections. Cantor’s theory of cardinalities weakens the former principle to “the part is not greater than the whole”, but the...

ILLC MSc in Logic Riccardo Pinosio Friedman [1, 2] claims that Kant's constructive approach to geometry was developed as a means to circumvent the limitations of his logic, which has been widely regarded by various commentators as nothing more than a glossa to Aristotelian subject-predicate logic. Contra Friedman, and building on the work of Achourioti and van Lambalgen [3], we purport to show ...