Anders, John (Author)
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Volume: 46
Pages: 106--135
The project of this paper is to look at problmata in the Organon, how the Mchanika employs problmata, what these texts can teach us about each other, and the significance of all these things for the difficulties that Aristotelian natural philosophy encounters in explaining projectile motion. My treatment of the last item will highlight a pun used in the Mchanika and argue that it makes a serious point. The paper proceeds as follows: first I will briefly present a reading of how problmata are understood by Aristotle in the Organon. Next I will examine how problmata are treated in the Mchanika. Then I will put these two views of problmata in dialogue with each other. Lastly I will utilize this discussion to address some of the well-known difficulties associated with Aristotle's account of projectiles, and what this might mean for Aristotelian natural philosophy as a whole.
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