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| Dedication | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Note on the Translation | p. xxix |
| Aquinas's Division of the Text of the Posterior Analytics | p. xxxi |
| Aquinas's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics | |
| Prooemium | p. 1 |
| The Need for Demonstration | |
| Dependence of Learning on Pre-existent Knowledge | p. 4 |
| The Pre-existent Knowledge Required for Demonstration | p. 6 |
| How the Conclusion Is Foreknown | p. 11 |
| The Definition of the Why-Demonstration | |
| Definition of the Why-Demonstration | p. 15 |
| Immediate Principles: Axioms and Suppositions | p. 23 |
| Principles Better Known than the Conclusion | p. 27 |
| Immediate Principles Not Demonstrable | p. 30 |
| Impossibility of Circular Demonstration | p. 33 |
| The Premises of the Why-Demonstration | |
| Meaning of "Predicated of All" | p. 39 |
| The Modes of Per Se | p. 42 |
| The Commensurately Universal | p. 47 |
| Errors regarding the Commensurately Universal | p. 50 |
| Principles of Demonstration as Necessary | p. 57 |
| Principles of Demonstration as Per Se | p. 64 |
| Demonstrations Not from Extrinsic Principles | p. 67 |
| Demonstrations and Definitions as Eternal | p. 72 |
| Demonstrations Not from Common Principles | p. 76 |
| Principles and Non-principles-Common and Proper Principles | p. 80 |
| Distinctions among Common Principles | p. 85 |
| Use of Common Principles | p. 89 |
| Questions and Arguments Proper to Each Science | p. 94 |
| Deceptions Proper to Each Science-Deceptions Not Found in the Sciences | p. 97 |
| The Premises of the Fact-Demonstration | |
| Fact-Demonstrations from Effect to Cause | p. 104 |
| Fact-Demonstrations from Remote Cause | p. 108 |
| Fact-Demonstrations in the Subalternated Sciences | p. 111 |
| The Form of the Demonstration | |
| Superiority of the First Figure-Immediate Negative Propositions | p. 115 |
| Falsity and Ignorance in the Demonstrative Sciences | |
| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Immediate Negative Propositions | p. 120 |
| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Immediate Affirmative Propositions | p. 126 |
| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Mediate Propositions | p. 131 |
| Sense Knowledge Required for Demonstration | p. 137 |
| The Impossibility of Demonstrations Proceeding Infinitely | |
| Questions about Whether Demonstrations Come to an End | p. 140 |
| Questions Reduced to the Question About Affirmative Demonstrations | p. 146 |
| Presuppositions for the Logical Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | p. 152 |
| The Logical Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | p. 158 |
| The Analytic Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | p. 165 |
| Corollaries of the Proofs that Demonstrations Come to an End | p. 170 |
| Comparison of Demonstrations | |
| Arguments for the Superiority of Particular Demonstrations | p. 178 |
| Universal Demonstrations Superior to Particular Demonstrations | p. 184 |
| Affirmative Demonstrations Superior to Negative Demonstrations | p. 189 |
| Negative Demonstrations Superior to Demonstrations to the Impossible | p. 194 |
| Comparison of Sciences to Each Other and to Other Forms of Knowledge | |
| Certitude of Sciences-Unity and Diversity of Sciences | p. 198 |
| Science in Relation to Chance Events and to Sense Knowledge | p. 206 |
| Principles Not the Same for All Sciences | p. 212 |
| Science and Opinion-Quickness of Mind | p. 220 |
| The Middle Term: Definition and Cause | |
| The Four Questions and Their Relation to the Middle Term | p. 229 |
| Opposing Arguments on the Relation of Definition and What a Thing is to Demonstration | |
| Definition and Demonstration Not of the Same Thing | p. 238 |
| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Convertible Terms | p. 244 |
| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Divisions | p. 249 |
| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Supposition | p. 254 |
| Impossibility of Knowing What a Thing Is by Demonstration or by Definition | p. 259 |
| How Definition and What a Thing is Are Related to Demonstration | |
| Showing What a Thing Is by Logical Syllogism and by Demonstration | p. 264 |
| Different Kinds of Definition in Relation to Demonstration | p. 271 |
| Demonstration and the Causes | |
| Demonstrations through the Four Causes | p. 277 |
| Demonstrations When Cause and Effect Are Simultaneous or Not Simultaneous | p. 285 |
| Continuity in Demonstrations from Non-simultaneous Causes | p. 291 |
| Demonstrations for Circular Processes and for Things Which Come to Be for the Most Part | p. 296 |
| Searching for Definitions | |
| Predicates Signifying What a Thing Is | p. 300 |
| Seeking Definitions by the Method of Division | p. 305 |
| Replies to Objections-Rules for the Method of Division | p. 310 |
| Seeking Definitions by the Method of Similarities | p. 315 |
| Searching for Causes | |
| Seeking the Cause of Common Characteristics | p. 319 |
| How Cause and Effect Are Not Always Convertible | p. 323 |
| How One Effect Can Have More than One Cause | p. 328 |
| The First Principles | |
| How the First Principles Come to Be Known | p. 335 |
| Translator's Commentary | p. 343 |
| References | p. 471 |
| Index | p. 473 |
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Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics
by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint; Berquist, Richard; McInerny, Ralph M.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-10
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