Aristotle Analytics

Propter quod unumquodque. . [ What causes an attribute to apply to a subject always possesses that attribute in an even greater degree. ] Aristotle, Analyt. Poster. [Posterior Analytics], 1.2. See also his Metaphys. [Metaphysics], 2.1. 

Aristode, then, is committed to theses (l)-(3). In this chapter, however, I show that, far from revealing a deep contradiction in Aristotle s thought, the body problem admits of a resolution that throws considerable light on several aspects of his metaphysical system. The resolution begins with a thesis concerning Aristotle s philosophy of mathematics and its relation to the conception of science Aristode articulates in the Posterior Analytics. In order to resolve completely the body problem, though, such a thesis must be combined with theses about the relationship between substance, form, motion and quantity. 

Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece... 

W.A. Wallace Galileo s Logic of Discovery and Proof. The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle s Posterior Analytics. 1992 ISBN 0-7923-1577-4... 

The Chemical Revolution was a revolution against the mysticism of the alchemists, the authority of the Scholastics, and the autocracy of the philosophy of the long-dead Aristotle. The weapons in this war were precise analytical measurement and precision in theoretical thought. The immediate result of the Chemical Revolution was to redefine chemical elements as separate materials with separate identities and prop-... 

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