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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 2 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) by Sorabji, Richard ;Fellow, Honorary ;College, Wolfson ;Griffin, Michael is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent. In book 2, Aristotle mainly develops strategies for making deductions about 'accidents', which are properties that might or might not belong to a subject (for instance, Socrates has five fingers, but might have had six), and about properties that simply belong to a subject without further specification. In the present commentary, here translated into English fo
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- Author
- Sorabji, Richard ;Fellow, Honorary ;College, Wolfson ;Griffin, Michael
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350151291
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Physics, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2021)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 3 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2022)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias : on Aristotle metaphysics 2 & 3 (1989)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias : on Aristotle metaphysics 5 (1993)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias : on Aristotle metaphysics 5 (2013)
- Alexander of Aphrodisias : On Aristotle Metaphysics 1 (2014)
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