Prior Analytics

This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical advances which since the 1970â s at least have rendered previous translations and commentaries obsolete. The translation is the first to take account of the recent epistemically orientated natural-deduction approach, which restores Aristotleâ s reputation as a consummate logician and reveals much more of Aristotleâ s method than previous approaches. Every page of Robin Smithâ s commentary shows extensive learning, taste, imagination, and skill. . . . An important and lasting contribution, not only to Aristotle scholarship and to the history of logic, but also to the history of philosophy itself. --John Corcoran, SUNY Buffalo See more