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In addition, Proclus also held that proofs by contradiction were not demonstrations "of the reasoned fact".
Accordingly, in "Posterior Analytics" I.13, Aristotle distinguished between demonstrations "of the fact" and demonstrations "of the reasoned fact".
There were two sorts of these: proofs of the simple fact (demonstrationes quia) and proofs of the reasoned fact (demonstrationes propter quid).
Demonstrative method (or composition) proceeds from cause to effect and involves demonstration "of the reasoned fact" or "most powerful" demonstration, best exemplified in the mathematical sciences.
Then in the second step, in the so-called demonstratio propter quid or demonstration from the reasoned fact (or composition), the natural philosopher should infer from the cause to the effect.
Faced with this notion, scholastics explicitly asked whether categories are the subject of scientific knowledge, and if so, whether the scientific knowledge in question is what Aristotle regarded as a knowledge of fact (scientia quia) or a knowledge of reasoned fact (scientia propter quid).
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