Aristotle's Topics (Philosophia antiqua 74)

Aristotle's TopJcs

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Thil work de:lls with Aristotle"s Topiu, ~ te>((book on how (0 argue 5u,calfuUy in. debate organised in . cemin WoIy. The origins of the th..,., bnnche:s of logic can bt found hen:: logic of propotitionl. of predicara and of relations. Having dealt with Ihe JlrucWre of tbe dialectical debaltl and the theory of the p","",icables. the cent",l notion of the topen iJ analysed. Topoi are principlesof arguments deligned.to help. dilputant tefu.te his opponent and function u hypotheses in hypothet icalsyUogisms. Ihe main form nf .rgummt in the Topia.. Traces of the crymlliution of their theory can be found in the Tup"" and An"/yliu The author analyses a Jt1eetion of lopai including those: according to which c:negoncal and ~latioml syllogisms arc COlUtructed.. P:aul Slom\mwski, D. Phil (1994) in

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