Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. The Several Senses of "Analysis" in Aristotle
A. A Brief Etymology
B. Analysis in Plato
C. Simple References to the Analytics
D. Decomposition
E. Disentanglement
F. Analysis and the Formula
G. Analysis of Geometric Figures
H. Analysis of Sorites
I. To Reduce or to Elevate (Anagein)?
J. Summary
Appendix: Analysis of the Problem of Constructing a Square Equal to a Given Rectangle
2. Analysis of Syllogisms: Foundations
A. Analysis and the Definition of Syllogism
B. Meaning, Belong, and Being
C. The So-Called Immediate Inferences
D. Figures and Moods
E. Complete Potential Syllogisms
F. Completing Potential Syllogisms
G. Modal Syllogisms
H. Summary
3. Analysis of Problematic Syllogisms
A. The Problemata
B. Analyzing Problematic Arguments: Finding Intermediate Terms
C. Analyzing Problematic Arguments: Finding Obscured Premises
D. Book II and Arguments Per Impossibile
E. Analyzing Problematic Arguments: Meta-logical Analyses
F. Rules
G. Summary
Appendix: Logic, Dialectic, and Analysis in the Posterior Analytics I.19-22
4. Analysis and Episteme
A. Aristotle's Clarification of the Word Episteme
B. Clarification Through Epistemic Questions
C. Analysis and Scientific Demonstration
D. The Criteria for Demonstrative Premises
E. Summary
5. Finding the Middle
A. "Of the Cause" versus "Immediacy"
B. Prior Knowledge
B.1. The Angle in a Semicircle
B.2. Corresponding Diminution (Antanairesin)
C. Hitting in the Middle
D. Thickening the Middle
E. Summary
6. Hunting for Principles
A. Some Reasoned Facts Are Indemonstrable
B. Immediate Premises and Defining
C. The Two Senses of What-it-is
D. Defining and the Preconceptual Grasp of What-it-is
E. What-it-is, Images and the Qua Locution
F. The Genus for Which There Is No Name
G. How Many Principles
H. Hunting for What-it-is
I. Summary
Appendix: Can to ti esti Be Demonstrated?
7. "The Principle of Science Is Nous"
A. Understanding as Movement
B. The Movers and the Perfections of Intellect
C. Is There Episteme of Immediate Principles? The Problem of II.19
D. Aristotle's Several Senses of Episteme and Nous
E. Habits of the Mind
F. Nous as the Principle of Science
8. Aristotle's Sciences
A. The Analytic Character of the Non-Demonstrative Sciences
B. The Four Causes and the Analysis of Nature
C. Analysis and the Soul
D. Science and Necessity
E. The Sophistic Aberration of Thought and the Control of Meaning
F. Summary
Notes
Bibliography
Index