Tomás Roberto Troster in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Science (episteme) is understood by Aristotle as a demonstrative knowledge, i.e. a kind of knowledge that can be expressed through a deductive discourse (logos) based on assumptions which are necessary but indemonstrable. The demonstration, which characterizes science, is regarded by the philosopher as a kind of deduction: a scientific deduction (syllogismon epistemonikon). Deduction (sul…
Our subject is the Aristotelian conceptions of induction (epagogé) and deduction (syllogism), their forms of operation and their logical connexions. We want to show that while deduction / syllogism is the only legitimate way of drawing inferences on an abstract level, it has no value for science if not based on universal premises, reached by induction. To date, inductive reasoning is crit…
The aim of this stage of the research is to understand the process by which Aristotle produces principles of science by induction - and, more specifically, understand the induction of common principles or logical principles. Four texts will be analysed: Prior Analytics I, 2, in which the philosopher shows the process of conversion of terms in prepositions; Prior Analytics I, 4, in which A…
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