The unifiying aim of Aristotle’s “two” Analytics (i.e. II.19 characterizes itself as the concluding chapter of the Analytics as a whole. But it must also be emphasized that Post. II.19 is the concluding chapter of (what we now call) the Posterior Analytics. 2 The context, structure, and philosophical goals of Post. II.19 as a unit and how 100a3-9 is embedded within it. But I begin with some preliminary remarks about Post.

We’ll be turning to 100a3-9 and the aporia of ē ek pantos soon, in Sections 3-5 below. But it strikes me as significantly more attractive than any alternative solution to the aporia I’m aware of. The solution proposed below doesn’t seem to have been elsewhere discussed. II.19 in general-turn on how one responds to this aporia about how to interpret 100a6’s ē ek pantos. And many competing readings of 100a39 in particular-and Post. The philosophical interpretation of 100a3-9 is, of course, highly controversial. (≈ “or from all.”) that we read at 100a6 when we study the genealogical account of foundational knowledge at II.19 100a3-9. The aporia in question concerns how to understand the enigmatic ē ek pantos. Our primary goal, however, is to recommend a novel solution to one particular interpretive aporia that’s especially vexed recent scholars working on Post. The present article sketches, and works to motivate, a controversial approach to Post. II.19 is today the most widely studied chapter in the whole of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics.

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