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'works', 'First-Order Modal Logic' and 'Quaestiones Disputatae de Malo'
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
1848
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We are coerced into assent to a truth by reason's violence [Aquinas]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
1575
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For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value [Roochnik on Aristotle]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
1589
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Aristotle is the supreme optimist about the ability of logos to explain nature [Roochnik on Aristotle]
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1858
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The mind is compelled by necessary truths, but not by contingent truths [Aquinas]
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition
8200
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Aristotelian definitions aim to give the essential properties of the thing defined [Aristotle, by Quine]
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2. Reason / D. Definition / 5. Genus and Differentia
4385
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Aristotelian definition involves first stating the genus, then the differentia of the thing [Aristotle, by Urmson]
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