Aristotle - The Organon - index for ANALYTICA POSTERIORA Book 1
Posterior Analytics
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Paragraph Index
Part 1
Proceeding from pre-existent knowledge
Part 2
Unqualified scientific knowledge
Part 3
Terminating regress in indemonstrable premisses
Part 4
Scientific knowledge must rest on essential premisses
Part 5
Failure of commensurate universality
Part 6
Demonstrative knowledge rests on necessary truths
Part 7
No demonstration may pass from one genus to another
Part 8
Commensurately universal premisses yield eternal conclusions
Part 9
Attribute demonstration only from 'appropriate' basic truths
Part 10
Basic truths, peculiar (to a genus), and common (to all)
Part 11
Existence of forms, contradiction, excluded middle
Part 12
There are distinctively scientific questions
Part 13
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reasoned fact
Part 14
Of all the figures the most scientific is the first
Part 15
Atomic connexions and disconnexions
Part 16
Ignorance is error produced by inference
Part 17
Attributes not atomically connected or disconnected
Part 18
Demonstration develops from universals, induction from particulars
Part 19
Every syllogism is effected by means of three terms
Part 20
Middle terms cannot be infinite in number
Part 21
That the regress of middles terminates
Part 22
Dialectical considerations
Part 23
Some corollaries
Part 24
Universal demonstration is better than particular
Part 25
Affirmative demonstration excels negative
Part 26
Negative demonstration and reductio ad impossibile
Part 27
Exactness and priority in science
Part 28
A single science is one whose domain is a single genus
Part 29
One can have several demonstrations of the same connexion
Part 30
There is no knowledge by demonstration of chance conjunctions
Part 31
Knowledge of things demonstrable cannot be acquired by perception
Part 32
Basic truths are not limited in number
Part 33
Scientific knowledge differs from opinion
Part 34
Quick wit is a faculty of hitting upon the middle term instantaneously
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