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On Aristotle On Interpretation 1-8
Ammonius (Hermiae.)
出版
Duckworth
, 1996
主題
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Philosophy / Logic
ISBN
0715626574
9780715626573
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WC0EAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Aristotle's
On Interpretation
, the centrepiece of his logic, examines the relationship between conflicting pairs of statements. The first eight chapters, analysed in this volume, explain what statements are, starting from their basic components - the words - and working up to the character of opposed affirmations and negations.
Ammonius, who in his capacity as Professor at Alexandria from around AD 470 taught almost all the great sixth-century commentators, left just this one commentary in his own name, although his lectures on other works of Aristotle have been written up by his pupils, who included Philoponus and Asclepius. His ideas on Aristotle's
On Interpretation
were derived from his own teacher, Proclus, and partly from the great lost commentary of Porphyry. The two most important extant commentaries on
On Interpretation
, of which this is one (the other being by Boethius) both draw on Porphyry's work, which can be to some extent reconstructed for them