/lit/ - Literature

Hello, so due to the thread about the absence of Aristotle I have a question for you all.

Is a syllogism defined by congruence of a relation of the first and last statements?

For instance consider this analogy

First figure:

A is contingent to B
B is necessarily present with C
A is contingent to C

Second figure:
A is necessarily present with B
A is contingent to C
B is contingent to C

So there is indeed a syllogism in the first figure but no syllogism in the second??

As this is a thread with actual philosophy I doubt it’s going to get replies but I’ll try

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I say this as someone who reads ancient texts on logic and Metaphysics: there are many other intellectual pursuits within literature.

Primarily there is mathematical literature, there is propositional logic/mathematics, and then there is some other complex literature out there, like dense historical documents (and trust me there is no shortage of those).

Reading all of those take a very high level of attention and care to not miss anything.

I’m still always worried I’m missing something when I read older mathematical tracts, which can be a combination of a historical lesson in epistemology and a practice of mathematics.

But yeah, philosophy can be pretty complicated at times

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What do you think of this book, /lit/? Are the Universal, the Major extreme, and the minor extreme all basically the same as the Form, Genera, and Species of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, in that order?

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>26 (around 5-10 years younger than butterfly)
>5 or 6 years
I’m on five books, about to finish the first two:

- Completion of the Conics by Alhacen
-Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern
- The Almagest by Ptolemy
- Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville
- Prior Analytics by Aristotle

Afterwards I will be reading...

- Leonardo Pisano - Liber Abaci
- Joseph Schumpeter - Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
- Alhacen - On the Conifguration of the World
- Jeremy Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
- Posterior Analytics - Aristotle

He is quite an enjoyable read for certain. I could think about syllogisms all day.

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Just read this and now I want to kill myself

About to read this. What should I expect?