Organon (World Philosophers and Their Works)
At a glance:
- Author: Aristotle
- First Published: 1812
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy
Context
The six treatises that make up Aristotle’s Organon are the first writings on logic as an independent discipline to appear in Western civilization. The title has been used to refer to the collection since at least the sixth century, but there is no evidence that Aristotle himself referred to the treatises by this name. Aristotle’s word for what today is called formal logic was “analytics.” Traditionally, the treatises have been ordered as follows: Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Posterior Analytics, Topics, and On Sophistical...
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