Abstract

Among Aristotle’s writings are two works that have come down to us as the Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics. Being Aristotle’s major contributions to the study of the syllogism and the theory of science based on it, they occupy important places in the corpus. However, despite the fact that Aristotle himself uses the word “analytics” to refer both to the treatises and to the discipline to which they belong, the question of what Aristotle intends with this terminology has received relatively little attention. Byrne’s aim is to fill this lacuna and in the process shed further light on the nature of Aristotle’s scientific project.