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On Possible Interpolation of Certain Mathematical Examples in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
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ФИЛОСОФИЯ, ЭТИКА И РЕЛИГИОВЕДЕНИЕ
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02.12.2019
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2019
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10.31857/S004287440006055-5
On Possible Interpolation of Certain Mathematical Examples in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
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In the following article I cautiously propose a hypothesis aimed towards resolving several problems of the text of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. The hypothesis is that some of the examples that are used in Posterior Analytics to illustrate its doctrine of the first principles of demonstrative knowledge (most importantly – the example of unit), are in fact interpolations of a later editor of the text. My argument is the following one. We know, that in case of Aristotle’ texts some kind of editorial work by one or several later editors is most probable. In case of Posterior Analytics it is more probable, than in case of other texts – if only for the fact of its exceptional convolution and proneness to contradict itself. Examples are exactly where we are to anticipate editorial work to be found. The examples, with which the doctrine of the first principles are illustrated contradict each other more often than not. In case of the most frequent of those example – the example of the unit – there is at least one place (93b24-25) of which we can be fairly sure that it was interpolated (as it both does not illustrate the thesis it is supposed to illustrate and breaks the continuity of the text). This gives us additional grounds to suspect other instances of the same example. We can also suggest from where the example of the unit was drawn by a hypothetical editor and why was it used by him so stubbornly. The proposed suggestions would help to explain several of the major contradictions extant in the text of Posterior Analytics as we have it. 

Voprosy filosofii. 2019 Issue 10
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Anton Yunusov
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
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