Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on existential import
Abstract
Jan Lukasiewicz's treatise on Aristotle's Syllogistic, published in the 1950s, has been very influential in framing contemporary understanding of Aristotle's logical systems. However, Lukasiewicz's interpretation is based on a number of tendentious claims, not least, the claim that the syllogistic was intended to apply only to non-empty terms. I show that this interpretation is not true to Aristotle's text and that a more coherent and faithful interpretation admits empty terms while maintaining all the relations of the traditional square of opposition.
Citation
Read , S 2015 , ' Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on existential import ' , Journal of the American Philosophical Association , vol. 1 , no. 3 , pp. 535-544 . https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2015.8
Publication
Journal of the American Philosophical Association
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2053-4477Type
Journal article
Description
This work was initially supported by Research Grant AH/F018398/1 (Foundations of Logical Consequence) from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.Collections
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