Aristotle’s vigorous vindication of rhetoric pairs it with dialectic. Dialectic, for Aristotle, combines logical propositions with induction from rigorous evidence in an effort to prove a case beyond doubt. Rhetoric parallels dialectic, but combines arguments with examples in an effort to persuade. Neither one amounts to science, which for Aristotle requires irrefutable establishment of general...

Author details Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Agronomy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Biological Sciences, Syngenta, Jealott’s Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire RG42 6EY, UK. ELGO-“Demetra”, Agric...

Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections: Incidence, Resistance Rates and Risk Factors for Mortality Parmenion P Tsitsopoulos, MD, PhD; Elias Iosifidis, MD, PhD; Georgios Papaevangellou, MD; Eftychios Kyriazidis, MD; Dimitris Anestis, MD; Charalampos Antachopoulos, MD, PhD; Emmanuel Roilides, MD, PhD; Christos Tsonidis, MD, PhD; Neurosurgical Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessalon...

Sotirios Fragkostefanakis1, Panagiotis Kalaitzis1, Dimitrios Gerasopoulos2* and Anastasios S. Siomos3 Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Department of Horticultural Genetics, GR-73100 Chania, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Food Science and Technology, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Agri...

In the present article we attempt to show that Aristotie's syllogistic is an underlying logie which includes a natural deductive system and that it is not an axiomatic theoryas had previously been thought. We construct a mathematical model which reflects certain structural aspects of Aristotle's logic and we examine both the mathematical properties of the model and the relation of the model to ...

Little about Aristotle's chapter on the voluntariness of character (NE iii 5) is uncontroversial.l Some arguments Aristotle deploys are on their face formally invalid; the position he appears to defend has seemed so absufd that commentators have felt obliged to rescue him from it. Thus we find Susan Sauvd Meyer, Randall Curren, and Jean Roberts, amon&others, arguing that despite appearances Ari...

CRITICISM as an instinctive reaction to the performance of poetry is as old as song,” writes George Kennedy in beginning theCambridge History of Literary Criticism, and Kenneth Dover reminds readers of the Frogs that “in pre-literate cultures the composition of songs is a process in which discussion and criticism, often passionate, play an important part—and inevitably so, because aesthetic rea...

Due to the rapid development and ubiquitous impact of modern technology, many people feel that nature is in danger of becoming extinct. From the 13th century until today, philosophers and theologians have been seeking advice from Aristotle to define both nature and technology in a way that the former restricts the latter. In this paper, I reconsider three corresponding theses usually attributed...