Single Idea 12259

[catalogued under 10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity]

Full Idea

Reasoning [sullogismos] is a discussion in which, certain things having been laid down, something other than these things necessarily results through them.

Gist of Idea

Reasoning is when some results follow necessarily from certain claims

Source

Aristotle (Topics [c.331 BCE], 100a25)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics and Topica', ed/tr. Tredennick,H/Forster,ES [Harvard 1960], p.273


A Reaction

This is cited as the standard statement of the nature of logical necessity. One might challenge either the very word 'necessary', or the exact sense of the word employed here. Is it, in fact, metaphysical, or merely analytic?