The Works of Aristotle/Prior Analytics

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ANALYTICA PRIORA

BY

A. J. JENKINSON, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF BRASENOSE COLLEGE

​Page:Works of Aristotle - vol. 1, ed. Ross - 1928 (djvu, worksofaristotle01arisuoft).djvu/93

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CONTENTS
BOOK I

A. Structure of the Syllogism.

1. Preliminary Discussions.

Chap.
1.
Subject and scope of the Analytics. Certain definitions and divisions.
2.
Conversion of pure propositions.
3.
Conversion of necessary and contingent propositions.

2. Exposition of the Three Figures.

4.
Pure syllogisms in the first figure.
5.
Pure syllogisms in the second figure.
6.
Pure syllogisms in the third figure.
7.
Common properties of the three figures.
8.
Syllogisms with two necessary premisses.
9.
Syllogisms with one pure and one necessary premiss in the first figure.
10.
Syllogisms with one pure and one necessary premiss in the second figure.
11.
Syllogisms with one pure and one necessary premiss in the third figure.
12.
Comparison of pure and necessary conclusions.
13.
Preliminary discussion of the contingent.
14.
Syllogisms in the first figure with two contingent premisses.
15.
Syllogisms in the first figure with one contingent and one pure premiss.
16.
Syllogisms in the first figure with one contingent and one necessary premiss.
17.
Syllogisms in the second figure with two contingent premisses.
18.
Syllogisms in the second figure with one contingent and one pure premiss.
19.
Syllogisms in the second figure with one contingent and one necessary premiss.
20.
Syllogisms in the third figure with two contingent premisses.
21.
Syllogisms in the third figure with one contingent and one pure premiss.
22.
Syllogisms in the third figure with one contingent and one necessary premiss.
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3. Supplementary Discussions.

23.
Every syllogism is in one of the three figures, is completed through the first figure, and reducible to a universal mood of the first figure.
24.
Quality and quantity of the premisses of the syllogism.
25.
Number of the terms, propositions, and conclusions.
26.
The kinds of proposition to be established or disproved in each figure.

B. Mode of the discovery of arguments.

1. General.

27.
Rules for categorical syllogisms, applicable to all problems.
28.
Rules for categorical syllogisms, peculiar to different problems.
29.
Rules for reductio ad impossibile, hypothetical syllogisms, and modal syllogisms.
30.
2. Proper to the several Sciences and Arts.
31.
3. Division.

C. Analysis (1) of arguments into figures and moods of syllogism.

32.
Rules for the choice of premisses, terms, middle term, figure.
33.
Quantity of the premisses.
34.
Concrete and abstract terms.
35.
Expressions for which there is no one word.
36.
The nominative and the oblique cases.
37.
The various kinds of attribution.
38.
Repetition of the same term.
39.
Substitution of equivalent expressions.
40.
The definite article.
41.
Interpretation of certain expressions.
42.
Analysis of composite syllogisms.
43.
Analysis of definitions.
44.
Analysis of arguments per impossibile and of other hypothetical syllogisms.
45.
Analysis (2) of syllogisms in one figure into another.
46.
'Is not A' and 'is not-A'.
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BOOK II

Properties and defects of syllogism; arguments akin to syllogism.

A. Properties.

1.
The drawing of more than one conclusion from the same premisses.
2-4.
The drawing of true conclusions from false premisses in the three figures.
5-7.
Circular proof in the three figures.
8-10.
Conversion in the three figures.
11-13.
Reductio ad impossibile in the three figures.
14.
Comparison of reductio ad impossibile and ostensive proof.
15.
Reasoning from opposites.

B. Defects.

16.
Petitio principii.
17.
False Cause.
18.
Falsity of conclusion due to falsity in one or more premisses.
19.
How to impede opposing arguments and conceal one's own.
20.
When refutation is possible.
21.
Error.

C. Arguments akin to Syllogism.

22.
Rules for conversion and for the comparison of desirable and undesirable objects.
23.
Induction.
24.
Example.
25.
Reduction.
26.
Objection.
27.
Enthymeme.
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