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Cover 1 Aristotle ́s Categories in the Early Roman Empire 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Preface 8 Contents 10 Abbreviations 13 1: Introduction 16 I. This Study: The Categories in the Early Roman Empire 22 Road Map 23 Goals, Methods, and Materials 29 II. The Structure of the Categories 31 Part A: Rediscovery and Endorsement: Andronicus and Eudorus 34 2: Andronicus of Rhodes 36 I. Life and History 38 II. Works and Editorial Activity: Beginning with the Categories 44 III. Andronicus on the Categories 47 1. The Categories introduces demonstration, not dialectic 51 2. The Categories introduces demonstration by cultivating the use of division to construct essential definitions 56 (a) Andronicus on division 57 (b) Andronicus on the reduction of ten categories to absolute and relative 63 (c) The Categories, in introducing demonstration, helps to avoid equivocation and fallacy 69 (d) The Categories begins from pre-technical outlines (πγραφα) of the genera that actuate our innate preconceptions of them... 72 (e) Other testimonies on the Categories 86 IV. Conclusions: Andronicus ́ relationship to the `ancient exegetes ́ of Categories 87 Peripatetics 88 Platonists 89 Stoics 91 3: `Pythagorean ́ S

Author

MICHAEL J. GRIFFIN

Published

2015

Language

EN