Single Idea 2675

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason]

Full Idea

Reasoning is based on certain statements made in such a way as necessarily to cause the assertion of things other than those statements and as a result of those statements.

Gist of Idea

Reasoning is a way of making statements which makes them lead on to other statements

Source

Aristotle (Sophistical Refutations [c.331 BCE], 165a01)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Sophistical Refutations, On the Cosmos etc (III)', ed/tr. Forster,E.S. /Furley,D.J. [Harvard Loeb 1955], p.13