Prior Analytics is Aristotle's work on deductive reasoning, part of his Organon, the instrument or manual of logical and scientific methods. Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Aristotelēs 384–March 7 322 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. ... In traditional Aristotelian logic, deductive reasoning is inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises, as opposed to abductive and inductive reasoning, where the conclusion is of greater generality than the premises. ... This article is about Aristotles logical works. ... Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, (but coming to mean thought or reason) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation of arguments, although the exact definition of logic is a matter of controversy among philosophers. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ...
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The text of the Prior Analytics is available from the MIT classics archive.
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