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Truth vs. necessary truth in Aristotle's sciences.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20040601
Author:Upton, Thomas V.

AT POSTERIOR ANALYTICS (APO) 1.1.71B15 AND FOLLOWING, Aristotle identifies six characteristics of the first principles from which demonstrative science (apodeiktike episteme) proceeds. These are traditionally grouped into two sets of three: group A: (1) (true) ex alethon, (2) (primary) proton, (3) (immediate) ameson; group B: (4) (better known than) gnorimoteron, (5) (prior to) proteron, and (6) (causes of) [alpha]ition. (1) The characteristic, which I believe has been underrated and somewhat misinterpreted by scholars and commentators from Philoponus to the present day, is the ...

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