Prior Analytics

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• bane · Feb 15, 2012 · Mentions

  …was translated into Latin and then awkwardly translated from Latin into English in the 1500s, into an archaic predecessor of modern English that is almost but not quite intelligible to the modern ear. Prior Analytics is not the Bible, it doesn't have to be quoted verbatim in whatever translation you favor to keep Aristotle from smiting you with thunderbolts or some such.

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• xamuel · Jun 18, 2020 · Mentions

  …their environment. I found it an interesting coincidence to read here about Aristotle's thoughts on animal intelligence, because just a couple days ago I made a note of this passage from Aristotle's "Prior Analytics": "Let A be raven, B intelligent, and C man. A then belongs to no B; for no intelligent thing is a raven. But B is possible for every C; for every man may be intelligent." I'm sure that's not the specific…

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• andsoitis · Jul 19, 2023 · Mentions

  Thanks for the illuminating explanation. Sounds like I can blame whoever translated to English in a 1581 text of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, the wrong usage of “beg”. At the same time, I intend to use the phrase correctly in the future!

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• jph · Feb 5, 2021 · Mentions

  MIT is publishing a book that collects these classic papers: Prior Analytics (∼350 BCE) By Aristotle The True Method (1677) By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) By L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace…

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• bhritchie · Dec 3, 2018 · Critical

  …approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to read the Prior Analytics, for instance.

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• deepakkarki · May 13, 2022 · Mentions

  The classics should be available outside of scihub! For example, Prior Analytics http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html Most famous papers are available via Google scholar!

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• rokhayakebe · Sep 6, 2013 · Mentions

  …Xenophon, etc... Currently I am reading Jacques Rousseau, and getting back soon to Adam Smith Wealth of Nations... I also started but did not finish yet the Communist Manifesto, How we think (slightly), Prior Analytics (slightly) and perhaps my hardest read ever, Suma Theologica. I am 100% sure I forgot a couple of books I read. Many of these writings I re-read a few times because they are hard to grasp for me. AT 146…

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