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9781780938974 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95
Product Description: In this part of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle elaborates his assessment of how universal truths of science can be scientifically explained as inevitable in demonstrative proofs. But he introduces complications: some sciences discuss phenomena that can only be explained by higher sciences and again sometimes we reason out a cause from an effect, rather than an effect from a cause...read more
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9781472557971 | Bristol Classical Pr, April 10, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this part of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle elaborates his assessment of how universal truths of science can be scientifically explained as inevitable in demonstrative proofs.
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9781603843065 | 2 edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 11, 2011), cover price $38.00
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9781603843058 | 2 edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 11, 2011), cover price $14.00
Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' elaborates the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess. This book explores the foundations of Aristotle's theory, pointing out the similarities and differences between scientific and other types of knowledge, and establishing the need for basic principles.
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9780715636671 | Bristol Classical Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' elaborates the notions of science and the requirements for the distinctive kind of knowledge scientists possess.
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9780715630396 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, July 26, 2001, cover price $118.20
A new introduction and sourcebook in presocratic philosophy, Philosophy Before Socrates provides a wide survey, informed by the most recent scholarship, of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and sophists of the fifth century. A comprehensive selection of fragments and testimonia, newly translated by the author, is presented in the context of a thorough and accessible discussion. An introductory chapter deals with the sources of presocratic and sophistic texts and the special problems of interpretation they present.
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9781603841832 | 2 edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 11, 2011), cover price $58.00
9780872201767 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1994, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A new introduction and sourcebook in presocratic philosophy, Philosophy Before Socrates provides a wide survey, informed by the most recent scholarship, of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and sophists of the fifth century.
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9781603841825 | 2 edition (Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 11, 2011), cover price $23.00
Product Description: Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy. It provides a wide survey of Greek science, metaphysics, and moral and political philosophy, from their roots in myth to the philosophers and Sophists of the fifth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780872201750 | Hackett Pub Co Inc, March 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Since its publication in 1994, Richard McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates has become the standard sourcebook in Presocratic philosophy.
Product Description: By a thorough study of the Posterior Analytics and related Aristotelian texts, Richard McKirahan reconstructs Aristotle's theory of episteme--science. The Posterior Analytics contains the first extensive treatment of the nature and structure of science in the history of philosophy, and McKirahan's aim is to interpret it sympathetically, following the lead of the text, rather than imposing contemporary frameworks on it...read more
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9780691073637 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: By a thorough study of the Posterior Analytics and related Aristotelian texts, Richard McKirahan reconstructs Aristotle's theory of episteme--science.
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