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Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles

Journal of the History of Philosophy 58 (3):449-469 (2020)

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Aristotle's Empiricism.Marc Gasser-Wingate - 2021 - Oxford University Press.details Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It's not clear, for instance, what perception is supposed to contribute to the more advanced forms of knowledge that derive from it. Nor is it clear how we should understand the nature of its contribution—what it might mean to say that these more advanced forms of knowledge are "derived from" or "based on" what we perceive. Aristotle (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Discovery of Principles in Prior Analytics 1.30.Marko Malink - 2022 - Phronesis 67 (2):161-215.details In Prior Analytics 1.27–30, Aristotle develops a method for finding deductions. He claims that, given a complete collection of facts in a science, this method allows us to identify all demonstrations and indemonstrable principles in that science. This claim has been questioned by commentators. I argue that the claim is justified by the theory of natural predication presented in Posterior Analytics 1.19–22. According to this theory, natural predication is a non-extensional relation between universals that provides the metaphysical basis for demonstrative (...) science. (shrink) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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