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| Dedication | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Note on the Translation | |
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| Aquinas's Division of the Text of the Posterior Analytics | |
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| Aquinas's Commentary on the Posterior Analytics | |
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| Prooemium | |
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| The Need for Demonstration | |
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| Dependence of Learning on Pre-existent Knowledge | |
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| The Pre-existent Knowledge Required for Demonstration | |
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| How the Conclusion Is Foreknown | |
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| The Definition of the Why-Demonstration | |
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| Definition of the Why-Demonstration | |
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| Immediate Principles: Axioms and Suppositions | |
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| Principles Better Known than the Conclusion | |
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| Immediate Principles Not Demonstrable | |
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| Impossibility of Circular Demonstration | |
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| The Premises of the Why-Demonstration | |
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| Meaning of "Predicated of All" | |
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| The Modes of Per Se | |
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| The Commensurately Universal | |
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| Errors regarding the Commensurately Universal | |
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| Principles of Demonstration as Necessary | |
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| Principles of Demonstration as Per Se | |
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| Demonstrations Not from Extrinsic Principles | |
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| Demonstrations and Definitions as Eternal | |
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| Demonstrations Not from Common Principles | |
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| Principles and Non-principles-Common and Proper Principles | |
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| Distinctions among Common Principles | |
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| Use of Common Principles | |
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| Questions and Arguments Proper to Each Science | |
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| Deceptions Proper to Each Science-Deceptions Not Found in the Sciences | |
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| The Premises of the Fact-Demonstration | |
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| Fact-Demonstrations from Effect to Cause | |
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| Fact-Demonstrations from Remote Cause | |
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| Fact-Demonstrations in the Subalternated Sciences | |
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| The Form of the Demonstration | |
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| Superiority of the First Figure-Immediate Negative Propositions | |
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| Falsity and Ignorance in the Demonstrative Sciences | |
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| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Immediate Negative Propositions | |
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| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Immediate Affirmative Propositions | |
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| False Syllogisms Opposed to True Mediate Propositions | |
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| Sense Knowledge Required for Demonstration | |
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| The Impossibility of Demonstrations Proceeding Infinitely | |
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| Questions about Whether Demonstrations Come to an End | |
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| Questions Reduced to the Question About Affirmative Demonstrations | |
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| Presuppositions for the Logical Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | |
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| The Logical Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | |
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| The Analytic Proof that Demonstrations Come to an End | |
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| Corollaries of the Proofs that Demonstrations Come to an End | |
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| Comparison of Demonstrations | |
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| Arguments for the Superiority of Particular Demonstrations | |
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| Universal Demonstrations Superior to Particular Demonstrations | |
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| Affirmative Demonstrations Superior to Negative Demonstrations | |
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| Negative Demonstrations Superior to Demonstrations to the Impossible | |
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| Comparison of Sciences to Each Other and to Other Forms of Knowledge | |
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| Certitude of Sciences-Unity and Diversity of Sciences | |
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| Science in Relation to Chance Events and to Sense Knowledge | |
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| Principles Not the Same for All Sciences | |
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| Science and Opinion-Quickness of Mind | |
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| The Middle Term: Definition and Cause | |
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| The Four Questions and Their Relation to the Middle Term | |
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| Opposing Arguments on the Relation of Definition and What a Thing is to Demonstration | |
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| Definition and Demonstration Not of the Same Thing | |
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| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Convertible Terms | |
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| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Divisions | |
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| Impossibility of Proving What a Thing Is by Supposition | |
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| Impossibility of Knowing What a Thing Is by Demonstration or by Definition | |
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| How Definition and What a Thing is Are Related to Demonstration | |
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| Showing What a Thing Is by Logical Syllogism and by Demonstration | |
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| Different Kinds of Definition in Relation to Demonstration | |
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| Demonstration and the Causes | |
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| Demonstrations through the Four Causes | |
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| Demonstrations When Cause and Effect Are Simultaneous or Not Simultaneous | |
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| Continuity in Demonstrations from Non-simultaneous Causes | |
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| Demonstrations for Circular Processes and for Things Which Come to Be for the Most Part | |
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| Searching for Definitions | |
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| Predicates Signifying What a Thing Is | |
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| Seeking Definitions by the Method of Division | |
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| Replies to Objections-Rules for the Method of Division | |
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| Seeking Definitions by the Method of Similarities | |
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| Searching for Causes | |
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| Seeking the Cause of Common Characteristics | |
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| How Cause and Effect Are Not Always Convertible | |
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| How One Effect Can Have More than One Cause | |
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| The First Principles | |
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| How the First Principles Come to Be Known | |
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| Translator's Commentary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |