About this book
The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topics constitutes Aristotle's treatise on the art of dialectic—the invention and discovery of arguments in which the propositions rest upon commonly-held opinions or endoxa. Topoi are "places" from which such arguments can be discovered or invented. In his treatise on the Topics, Aristotle does not explicitly define a topos, though it is "at least primarily a strategy for argument not infrequently justified or explained by a principle." (Adapted from Wikipedia)
Chapters
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- 1Book I Chapters 1-719:55 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 2Book I Chapters 8-1417:42 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 3Book I Chapters 15-1820:40 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 4Book II Chapters 1-626:46 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 5Book II Chapters 7-1122:00 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 6Book III Chapters 1-634:15 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 7Book IV Chapters 1-325:45 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 8Book IV Chapters 4-633:44 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 9Book V Chapters 1-324:27 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 10Book V Chapters 4-522:24 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 11Book V Chapters 6-923:56 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 12Book VI Chapters 1-424:06 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 13Book VI Chapters 5-829:08 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 14Book VI Chapters 9-1431:26 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 15Book VII Chapters 1-524:17 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 16Book VIII Chapters 1-219:25 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 17Book VIII Chapters 3-1020:15 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
- 18Book VIII Chapters 11-1421:25 · read by Geoffrey Edwards
