Louis Groarke, An Aristotelian Account of Induction: Creating Something From Nothing [Book Review]

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (4) (2010)
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Abstract

Groarke is surely right that Aristotle believed the cognitive hierarchy he described in Posterior Analytics B 19 is central to, and not antithetical to, validating the syllogism described in Prior Analytics B 23. But did Aristotle really believe induction ultimately relies on what Groarke calls “a stroke or leap of understanding,” “immediate illumination,” “moment of immediate cognition,” “a direct insight,” “moment of illumination,” and so on? . . . Overall, what Groarke says here is provocative and inviting, even if not definitive.

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John P. McCaskey
Fordham University

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