Philoponus(?) : on Aristotle Posterior analytics 2 /

Philoponus(?) : on Aristotle Posterior analytics 2 /

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Author / Creator:	Philoponus, John, active 6th century.
Imprint:	London : Duckworth, 2009.
Description:	ix, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Ancient commentators on Aristotle Ancient commentators on Aristotle (London, England)
Subject:	Aristotle. -- Posteror analytics. Posterior analytics (Aristotle) Logic -- Early works to 1800. Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800. Knowledge, Theory of. Logic. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7793458

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Other authors / contributors:	Goldin, Owen, 1957-
ISBN:	9780715637883 (hbk.) 0715637886 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-192) and indexes. Translated from the Ancient Greek.
Summary:	"The 'Posterior Analytics' contains Aristotle's Philosophy of Science. In Book 2, Aristotle asks how the scientist discovers what sort of loss of light constitutes lunar eclipse. The scientist has to discover that the moon's darkening is due to the earth's shadow. Once that defining explanation is known the scientist possesses the full scientific concept of lunar eclipse and can use it to explain other necessary features of the phenomenon. The present commentary, arguably misascribed to Philoponus, offers some interpretations of Aristotle that are unfamiliar nowadays. For example, the scientific concept of a human is acquired from observing particular humans and repeatedly receiving impressions in the sense image or percept and later in the imagination. The impressions received are not only of particular distinctive characteristics, like paleness, but also of universal human characteristics, like rationality. Perception can thus in a sense apprehend universal qualities in the individual as well as particular ones."--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:	Online version: Philoponus, John, 6th cent. Philoponus(?) London : Duckworth, 2009

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