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- For Aristotle the scientific inquiry that leads to the resolution of perplexity and puzzlement is preeminently a search for such explanatory principles, or origins. All theoretical understanding proceeds rigorously from indemonstrable first principles.
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Sep 25, 2008 · Aristotle’s attitude towards explanation is best understood first by considering a simple example he proposes in Physics ii 3. A bronze statue admits of various different dimensions of explanation.
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Aristotle does not believe that the purpose of logic is to prove that human beings can have knowledge. (He dismisses excessive scepticism.) The aim of logic is the elaboration of a coherent system that allows us to investigate, classify, and evaluate good and bad forms of reasoning.
Aristotle’s attitude towards explanation is best understood first by considering a simple ex-ample he proposes in Physics ii §. A bronze statue admits of various different dimensions of explanation. If we were to confront a statue without first recognizing what it was, we would, thinks Aristotle, spontaneously ask a series of questions ...
Abstract. In this chapter, Hankinson examines Aristotle's philosophy of science, or the logical structure of explanation as set out in the Posterior Analytics, and which is based on the theory of the syllogism worked out in the Prior Analytics. For Aristotle, definition is fundamental to the project of exhibiting science in its appropriate ...
of material explanation, taken in the broad sense as an explanation stating ‘that out of which’. For the problems involved (which do not a·ect the interpretation presented here), see Barnes, Posterior, 226–7; W. Detel, Aristoteles: Analytica Po-steriora [Analytica] (Berlin, 1993), 685, 690–4; and W. D. Ross, Aristotle’s Prior and
Aristotle distinguishes four causes or causal factors in explanation: matter, form, agent, and end, and he distinguishes sharply between regular natural events that can be explained by means of these causes, and chance events, which do not admit full explanation. Keywords: action, change, form, freedom, matter, Nature, potentiality ...
Sextus Empiricus gives of the origin of skepticism and in Aristotle’s own treatment of philosophical methodology in his Metaphysics , Aristotle’s attitude towards them is strikingly different from that exemplified in the various forms of ancient skepticism.
