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Quotation from Posterior Analytics and Physics by Aristotle
“By demonstration I mean a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge”
Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics I.2 (71b), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928)
Aristotle's definition of demonstration, after defining scientific knowledge as knowledge of a necessary fact through its cause.
Citation: "By demonstration I mean a syllogism productive of scientific knowledge" — Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics I.2 (71b), trans. G. R. G. Mure (1928). (id aristotle-posterior-analytics-and-physics-q1)
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
