Aristotle's induction and the inference of first principles
Auteur :
Botting, David
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781666950212
Date de publication :
27 nov. 2024
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
558 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle’s account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author argues that Aristotle’s account is empiricist and that first principles are, perhaps surprisingly, known inferentially and not by intuition.