La trattazione aristotelica delle scienze subordinate negli Analitici secondi

Titolo Rivista RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Autori/Curatori Piero Tarantino
Anno di pubblicazione 2012 Fascicolo 2012/3 Lingua Italiano
Numero pagine 26 P. 445-470 Dimensione file 525 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2012-003001
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This paper explores Aristotle’s remarks in Posterior Analytics on certain special disciplines that are subordinate to pure mathematical sciences. Optics, harmonics and mechanics prove their own contents by means of premises belonging to arithmetic or geometry. Even though subaltern sciences are exceptions to the prohibition on kind crossing, the premises to their demonstrations are legitimately appropriate to the relative conclusions. In order to delineate the demonstrative structure of subordinate sciences, Aristotle introduces the distinction between knowledge of a fact and knowledge of the reason for it. In his view, these two different levels of knowledge, characterizing respectively empirical and theoretical approaches, are closely related. Nautical astronomy, for instance, deals with the observation and recording of the astral motions, which are made intelligible by mathematical astronomy. The Aristotelian ideal of an explanatory connection between appearances and mathematical principles seems to be the main aspect in the treatment of subordinate sciences in Posterior Analytics.;

Keywords:Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, subordinate sciences, mathematical sciences, demonstration.

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Piero Tarantino, La trattazione aristotelica delle scienze subordinate negli Analitici secondi in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 3/2012, pp 445-470, DOI: 10.3280/SF2012-003001