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Title: The Origins of Aristotelian Science by Michael Ferejohn, John Fere ISBN: 0-300-04649-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.00

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Summary: Wealth of insights
Comment: The book "The Origins of Aristotelian Science"
by Michael Ferejohn (1991) has a wealth of nice insights and it is ashame this is unavailable now. Here are some of the best I found:

p.2 Aristotle proceeds with showing how to do collecting and organizing data
-- "the two Analytics... seem to have very little to say about the investigatory methods .. but instead is from a standpoint of a "finished" science whose research is complete and is focused on patterns and how one proves (demonstrates) (deduction) "that certain independently discoverd particular facts ...follow from principles already in hand".

p41 Aristotle mimics Plato
Meno -- Must know all (the forms!) to know the particulars-- from definition to instance. But for Aristotle the real
knowledge is particular cases.

36 the issue of logical axioms
Non-contradiction and Excluded middle that the division "leave nothing out"

A is B and not B

Some B are A Some A are B
Some B are not A Some A are not B
(diagrams)

Some books are brown things.
Some brown things are books.

Some cows eat grass.

p 42 - 43
Plato -- You know universals and believe particulars.
Aristotle -- You know particulars and believe universals.

If we deny pre-existent knowledge, then where does knowledge come from? Since it only seems we perceive particulars then we intuit the connection that makes the universal that we know.

"META TON LOGON"
p. 52 not just a proposition but that "together with its account" which follows its logic "TO TI ESTI" (what-is-it)

p. 66 the minor premise should be better known than the major premise for it to be a good explanation of the conclusion -- even if both premises (demonstration) are true! (planets twinkle)

p. 69 for the predicate to be truly predicated of a subject it must be true in **

not all books are brown but all books have color

deductive -- all -- particulars

inductive particulars -- all
old ideas give new specifics

From what must be to new specifics that are.

New specifics from what is to what must be
new ideas (diagram)

p. 80 Categories Ia 20 - b9
four types of entity (i) things neither said of x or inhere in x, (b3 -
9)(ii) things said of (Ex)x but do not inhere in x ia 20-22, iii things that
inhere in (Ex)x but are not said of x, ia 23-9, and iv things that are both
said of (Ex)x and inhere in (Ex)x 1 a29-b3)

examples i primary substance -- the particular man, the particular horse

ii secondary substances (genera) (species) man, animal
iii nonsubstantial particulars soul, white

iv nonsubstantial universals (said of type3) color

Collected Logical Works Vol II George Boole Laws of Thought, Pascal started "probabilities."

All of these and others I did not make note of made this a very worthwhile read.