Aristotle, Prior Analytics

"This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical advances which since the 1970s at least have rendered previous translations and commentaries obsolete. The translation is the first to take account of the recent epistemically orientated natural-deduction approach, which restores Aristotles reputation as a consummate logician and reveals much more of Aristotles method than previous approaches. Every page of Robin Smiths commentary shows extensive learning, taste, imagination, and skill. . . . An important and lasting contribution, not only to Aristotle scholarship and to the history of logic, but also to the history of philosophy itself." --John Corcoran, SUNY Buffalo

we Must First State The Subject Of Our Inquiry And The Faculty To Which It Belongs: Its Subject Is Demonstration And The Faculty That Carries It Out Demonstrative Science. We Must Next Define A Premiss, A Term, And A Syllogism, And The Nature Of A Perfect And Of An Imperfect Syllogism; And After That, The Inclusion Or Noninclusion Of One Term In Another As In A Whole, And What We Mean By Predicating One Term Of All, Or None, Of Another.

A translation that intends to take account of the epistemically orientated natural-deduction approach, which restores Aristotle's reputation as a consummate logician and reveals Aristotle's method. It contributes not only to Aristotle scholarship and to the history of logic, but also to the history of philosophy itself. We must first state what our inquiry is about and what its object is, saying that it is about demonstration and that its object is demonstrative science.