Aristotle's Topics 9004107576, 9789004107571

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 10
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
I. DIALECTICAL DEBATES......Page 20
II. WHAT IS A TOPOS?......Page 54
III. PREDICABLES AND THE SPECIAL STATUS OF SUMBEBEKOS......Page 80
IV. HYPOTHETICAL SYLLOGISMS -THE MAIN FORM OF ARGUMENTS IN THE TOPICS......Page 106
V. SELECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF CONCRETE TOPO!......Page 144
SUMMARY......Page 180
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 186
CLASSIFIED BffiUOGRAPHY......Page 206
GREEK-ENGLISH GLOSSARY......Page 210
INDEX OF PASSAGES......Page 214
GENERAL INDEX......Page 226
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA......Page 230

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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

PbJosophy, Univers;lyof Oxford. where he hu . ub