Begging the question is one of the classic informal fallacies in Aristotle's Prior Analytics.

Aristotle was apparently receptive to such an idea, as evidenced by a passage in his Prior Analytics:

Aristotle's Prior Analytics most likely is the original reference that makes use of example syllogisms involving the predicates "white", "black", and "swan."

Aristotle's Prior Analytics represents the first time in history when Logic is scientifically investigated.

In the sixth century, Boethius composed the first - known - Latin translation of the Prior Analytics.

In the Prior Analytics, Aristotle identifies valid and invalid forms of arguments called syllogisms.

The text of the Prior Analytics is available from the MIT classics archive.

Aristotle was probably the first to employ variable letters to represent valid inferences (in the Prior Analytics).

The Prior Analytics, a formal analysis of valid argument or "syllogism".

Averroes' dissertations on the first book of the Prior Analytics.