On Aristotle's "Prior Analytics 1.8–13"In the second half of book 1 of the "Prior Analytics," Aristotle reflects on the application of the formalized logic he has developed in the first half, focusing particularly on the non modal or assertoric syllogistic developed in the first seven chapters. These reflections lead Alexander of Aphrodisias, the great late second century AD exponent of Aristotelianism, to explain and sometimes argue against subsequent developments of Aristotle's logic and