Beschreibung:
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 2,0, University of California, Berkeley (Department of Philosophy), course: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, language: English, abstract: The
"Posterior
Analytics,"
the
oldest
text
on
the
philosophy
of
...
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 2,0, University of California, Berkeley (Department of Philosophy), course: Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, language: English, abstract: The
"Posterior
Analytics,"
the
oldest
text
on
the
philosophy
of
science
known
today,
displays
Aristotle’s
ideas
of
systematic
acquisition
of
scientific
knowledge
and
its
proper
demonstration.
On
the
basis
of
the
Posterior
Analytics,
and
by
means
of
two
examples,
this
essay
wants
to
sketch
the
critique
on
essentialism
and
universals
in
the
mid‐20th
century.
The
focus
is
on
Karl
Raimund
Popper’s
account
given
in
"The
Open
Society
and
its
Enemies
"(1945),
namely
book
II
chapter
11,
and
on
Williard
Van
Orman
Quine’s
essay
"On
What
There
Is
" (1948).