This volume presents a new translation of Aristotle's Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes. The text is entirely devoted to the discussion of definition, the most extended and refined discussion of this subject handed down to us from the classical period.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- INTRODUCTION
- I: The Place of the Topics in Aristotle's Corpus
- II: The Contents of the Topics
- III: The Four Predicables
- IV: The Classifications of the Predicables
- V: The Logical Relations among the Predicables
- VI: The Predicable Definition
- VII: Types of Definition and their Rules
- VIII: The Notion of Causality in the Topics
- IX: Some Prominent Themes concerning Standard Definitions
- X: Structure and Interpretations of Book VI of the Topics
- TRANSLATION
- COMMENTARY
- Notes on the Text
- Appendix: The Predicables Logical Relations
- Select Bibliography
- Glossary: English-Greek / Greek-English
- Indexes
