Title :

Exempla docent. How to Make Sense of Aristotle’s Examples of the Fallacy of Accident (Doxography Matters)

Author(s) :

Gazziero, Leone [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Acta philosophica

Publication date :

2015

ISSN :

1121-2179

Keyword(s) :

Aristote
Réfutations sophistiques
paralogismes de l’accident
paralogismes du conséquents
commentateurs byzantins
commentateurs latins

English keyword(s) :

Aristotle
Sophistici elenchi
fallacy of accident
fallacy of consequent
Byzantin Commentators
Latin Commentators

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

English abstract : [en]

Scholarly dissatisfaction with Aristotle’s fallacy of accident has traditionally focused on his examples, whose compatibility with the fallacy’s definition has been doubted time and again. Besides a unified account of the ...
Show more >Scholarly dissatisfaction with Aristotle’s fallacy of accident has traditionally focused on his examples, whose compatibility with the fallacy’s definition has been doubted time and again. Besides a unified account of the fallacy of accident itself, the paper provides a formalized analysis of its several examples in Aristotle’s Sophistici elenchi. The most problematic instances are dealt with by means of an internal reconstruction of their features as conveyed by Aristotle’s text and an extensive survey of their interpretation in the Byzantine and Latin exegetical tradition. Carefully handled a doxographical approach, as opposed to rapid results oriented practices, proves to be most effective in that it supplies both useful albeit ordinarily overlooked insights and a comprehensive framework of reference for further investigations.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

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