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Tuominen, Miira

doi:10.1515/apeiron.2010.43.2-3.115

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“…and was at some later stage tacked on to the discussions of II.1-18.' 20) Tuominen (2010) also argues that II.19 explains how we come to know 'starting-points for inquiry' (121) and that in this respect the chapter is congruent with what Aristotle says about inquiry elsewhere in Posterior Analytics II. In my view, however, she spoils her good thought by adopting the more usual line, arguing that II.19 also explains how we reach first principles.…”

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The Origin and Aim of Posterior Analytics II.19

Bronstein

2012

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In Posterior Analytics II.19 Aristotle raises and answers the question, how do first principles become known? The usual view is that the question asks about the process or method by which we learn principles and that his answer is induction. I argue that the question asks about the original prior knowledge from which principles become known and that his answer is perception. Hence the aim of II.19 is not to explain how we get all the way to principles but to defend the claim that our knowledge of them originates in perception. Aristotle explains how we learn principles earlier in book II, in his account of definitional inquiry. In II.19 he explains how we reach by induction the preliminary accounts necessary for such inquiries.

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Section: The Origin Of Posterior Analytics Ii19mentioning

confidence: 94%