ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the reasoning; kinds of premises and the endoxa; types of order; faculties of knowing; intuitive induction. It begins with reasoning simply because the founding of logic was Aristotle's great original contribution. Demonstration reasons from premises that are true and primary, or else derived originally from such. Dialectical reasoning reasons from generally accepted opinions. The endoxa, or generally accepted opinions, are appropriately discussed by LeBlond under the heading "the matter of dialectic". Aristotle distinguishes five human faculties or capacities concerned with knowledge. They are scientific knowledge art or skill, prudence or practical wisdom, intelligence or intuitive reason, and wisdom. The Posterior Analytics says that loss of any one of the senses entails the loss of a corresponding portion of knowledge, and that sense perception grasps the particulars. The role for intuitive induction is therefore geared to providing universal ideas and primary universal truths.
