%0 Journal Article %T Os seis requisitos das premissas da demonstra£¿£¿o cient¨ªfica em arist¨®teles (Segundos Anal¨ªticos I2) %A Angioni %A Lucas %J Manuscrito %D 2012 %I Universidade Estadual de Campinas %R 10.1590/S0100-60452012000100001 %X i discuss in this paper the six requirements aristotle advances at posterior analytics a-2, 71b20-33, for the premisses of a scientific demonstration. i argue that the six requirements give no support for an intepretation in terms of "axiomatization". quite on the contrary, the six requirements can be consistently understood in a very different picture, according to which the most basic feature of a scientific demonstration is to explain a given proposition by its appropriate cause. %K demonstration %K syllogistic %K causality %K essencialism %K explanation %K predication. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-60452012000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en