Aristotle: On Sophistical Refutations (Clarendon Aristotle Series)

The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals.It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues.The volumes in the series have been widely welcomed and favourably reviewed.Important new titles are being added to the series, and a number of well-established volumes are being reissued with revisions and/or supplementary material. This is the first English translation with an associated commentary of Aristotle's On Sophistical Refutations in more than a century.Aristotle's treatise on fallacious arguments has been the starting point of accounts of fallacies for over two millennia.Apart from its importance in the history of logic and argumentation, the work also sheds light on many aspects of Aristotle's philosophy and its development.This new translation and commentary takes account of the extensive scholarly work on Aristotle's treatise in recent decades,