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The Topics is Aristotle's treatise on dialectical argument, a practice perhaps as old as human language, systemized for the first time by Aristotle. This seminal text offers many important insights into his conception of logic, his development of the notion of the predicables (the Five Terms), and his ideas on the method of philosophical inquiry itself. This volume contains a clear and accurate translation of Books I and VIII of Aristotle's Topics, together with a philosophical commentary on these books and additional selections from Books II and III, and from the Sophistical Refutation.…
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6 editions · 3 languages- Paperback · English · 2006Digireads.com · 108 pages · 9781420927450
- Paperback · English · 2004Kessinger Publishing · 148 pages · 9781419190629
- Other · English · 1997Clarendon · 207 pages · 9780198239451
- Other · English · 1997Clarendon Press · 207 pages · 9780198239420
- Other · German · 1997TopikF. Meiner Verlag · 682 pages · 9783787313129
- Other · GRC · 1979Topica et Sophistici elenchiE. Typographeo Clarendoniano · 260 pages · 9780198145165
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