Name: Prior Analytics
ISBN: 9781419143038

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andsoitisJul 2023

Thanks for the illuminating explanation.

Sounds like I can blame whoever translated to English in a 1581 text of Aristotle’s Prior Analytics, the wrong usage of “beg”.

At the same time, I intend to use the phrase correctly in the future!

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deepakkarkiMay 2022

The classics should be available outside of scihub!

For example, Prior Analytics http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/prior.html

Most famous papers are available via Google scholar!

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jphFeb 2021

MIT is publishing a book that collects these classic papers:

Prior Analytics (∼350 BCE) By Aristotle

The True Method (1677) By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Sketch of the Analytical Engine (1843) By L. F. Menabrea, with Notes by the Translator, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace

An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (1854) By George Boole

Mathematical Problems (1900) By David Hilbert

On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (1936) By Alan Mathison Turing

A Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine (1937) By Howard Hathaway Aiken

A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (1938) By Claude Shannon

A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity (1943) By Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts

First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945) By John von Neumann

As We May Think (1945) By Vannevar Bush

A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) By Claude Shannon

Error Detecting and Error Correcting Codes (1950) By R. W. Hamming

Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950) By Alan Mathison Turing

The Best Way to Design an Automatic Calculating Machine (1951) By Maurice Wilkes

The Education of a Computer (1952) By Grace Murray Hopper

On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem (1956) By Joseph B. Kruskal, Jr.

The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization (1958) By Frank Rosenblatt

Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation (1960) By Norbert Wiener

Man–Computer Symbiosis (1960) By J. C. R. Licklider

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (1960) By John McCarthy

Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (1962) By Douglas C. Engelbart

An Experimental Time-Sharing System (1962) By Fernando Corbató, Marjorie Merwin Daggett, and Robert C. Daley

Sketchpad (1963) By Ivan E. Sutherland

Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits (1965) By Gordon Moore

Solution of a Problem in Concurrent Program Control (1965) By Edsger Dijkstra

ELIZA—A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine (1966) By Joseph Weizenbaum

The Structure of the “THE”-Multiprogramming System (1968) By Edsger Dijkstra

Go To Statement Considered Harmful (1968) By Edsger Dijkstra

Gaussian Elimination is Not Optimal (1969) By Volker Strassen

An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming (1969) By C. A. R. Hoare

A Relational Model of Large Shared Data Banks (1970) By Edgar F. Codd

Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (1970) By Winston W. Royce

The Complexity of Theorem-Proving Procedures (1971) By Stephen A. Cook

A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval (1972) By Karen Spärck Jones

Reducibility among Combinatorial Problems (1972) By Richard Karp

The Unix Time-Sharing System (1974) By Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication (1974) By Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn

Programming with Abstract Data Types (1974) By Barbara Liskov and Stephen Zilles

The Mythical Man-Month (1975) By Frederick C. Brooks

Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks (1976) By Robert Metcalfe and David R. Boggs

New Directions in Cryptography (1976) By Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman

Big Omicron and Big Omega and Big Theta (1976) By Donald E. Knuth

Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs (1977) By Richard DeMillo, Richard Lipton, and Alan Perlis

A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems (1978) By Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman

How to Share a Secret (1979) By Adi Shamir

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xamuelJun 2020

TL/DR: Darwin eventually came to believe earthworms have some amount of intelligence because they drag leaves in certain specific ways, including leaves not native to their environment.

I found it an interesting coincidence to read here about Aristotle's thoughts on animal intelligence, because just a couple days ago I made a note of this passage from Aristotle's "Prior Analytics": "Let A be raven, B intelligent, and C man. A then belongs to no B; for no intelligent thing is a raven. But B is possible for every C; for every man may be intelligent." I'm sure that's not the specific place this author is talking about but it's interesting to see Aristotle's philosophy about animal intelligence creep even into his works on dry formal logic.

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bhritchieDec 2018

Plato is certainly very approachable, and perhaps Athanasius is as well; of course there are examples on the other side as well - Aristotle leaps to mind. Better, probably, to read an account of his logic than to try to read the Prior Analytics, for instance.

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rokhayakebeSep 2013

I read at 146 words per minute, and that is average text. I probably read slower when the material is hard. Over the past year or so I went through roughly 90% of Plato's work (like, really), The Quran (partially), On the Nature of Things, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Discourses by Epictetus, How to Read by M. Adler, Alchemy of Happiness by Ghazalli, etc.... I also read several short text including James Allen, Xenophon, etc... Currently I am reading Jacques Rousseau, and getting back soon to Adam Smith Wealth of Nations... I also started but did not finish yet the Communist Manifesto, How we think (slightly), Prior Analytics (slightly) and perhaps my hardest read ever, Suma Theologica. I am 100% sure I forgot a couple of books I read. Many of these writings I re-read a few times because they are hard to grasp for me. AT 146 words/minute. I am an inefficient reader, and I never knew it. I am going to thoroughly research ways to improve this.

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