On Interpretation

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) is one of the greatest thinkers of Antiquity, a student of Plato and the tutor of Alexander the Great, the founder of the Peripatetic school, the founding figure of formal logic, a natural scientist whose influence significantly shaped the development of all Western European philosophy and science. In his famous “Organon,” a philosophical work devoted to logic, Aristotle’s first treatise was “Categories”—one of the earliest works of the philosopher, where for the first time he outlines 10 categories by which we learn and describe the surrounding reality. This work became, in many ways, the foundation for logic research throughout the history of Western philosophy. The collection also includes “Introduction” by Porphyry, an ancient philosopher and Neoplatonist, who explains all the basic concepts of the logic teaching in “Categories,” and Aristotle’s logical treatise “On Interpretation.”