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Boethius on mind, grammar, and logic
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ISSN: 00791687 ISBN: 9789004214187 9004214186 9786613334787 128333478X 9004216049 9789004216044 Year: 2012 Volume: 127 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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Boethius (c.480-c.525/6), who is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy , has been accused of misinterpreting Aristotle’s logical works in his translations and commentaries thereof. Building on recent scholarship in the philosophy of late antiquity, this book challenges some of the past interpretations of Boethius and reveals significant features of his semantics and logic. With comparisons between his and contemporary arguments and attention to the terminology of late antiquity, this work is of use to those interested in semantics, logic and grammar from antiquity to the modern day. Furthermore, this book’s new conclusions aim to reinvigorate interest in this much-maligned and poorly understood philosopher.


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Inference from signs : ancient debates about the nature of evidence
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ISBN: 128199877X 9786611998776 0191568341 9780191568343 0199550492 9780199550494 9780199550494 9780198250944 1383013985 6611998772 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon,

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James Allen presents an original and penetrating investigation of the theory of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method.


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Probabilities, hypotheticals, and counterfactuals in ancient Greek thought
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ISBN: 1139990594 1316011208 1316006700 1316013448 1107671248 1316002209 1316004449 1316008940 1107279550 1107050499 1322176612 9781316004449 9781107279551 9781316006702 9781107050495 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume explores the conceptual terrain defined by the Greek word eikos: the probable, likely, or reasonable. A term of art in Greek rhetoric, a defining feature of literary fiction, a seminal mode of historical, scientific, and philosophical inquiry, eikos was a way of thinking about the probable and improbable, the factual and counterfactual, the hypothetical and the real. These thirteen original and provocative essays examine the plausible arguments of courtroom speakers and the 'likely stories' of philosophers, verisimilitude in art and literature, the likelihood of resemblance in human reproduction, the limits of human knowledge and the possibilities of ethical and political agency. The first synthetic study of probabilistic thinking in ancient Greece, the volume illuminates a fascinating chapter in the history of Western thought.


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Radulphus Brito. Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis
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ISBN: 9461662092 9789461662095 9462700869 9789462700864 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press,

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Radulphus Brito's Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major work written in the early 1300s which treated Aristotle's text devoted to the theory of the syllogism. Brito, perhaps one of the most influential medieval thinkers known as the Modistae, examines both categorical and hypothetical syllogisms. In his text, based on six known manuscripts which are complete or nearly complete, Brito was critical of many of the theories of his contemporary, Simon of Faversham. It should also be mentioned that Brito edited his work several times. There are at least two versions which indicate Brito returned to this material during his long career at the university in Paris. This volume is the first critical text edition of Brito's Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis and will therefore be of great interest to those studying the history of logic and its development during the medieval period.


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Ars Topica : The Classical Technique of Constructing Arguments from Aristotle to Cicero
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ISBN: 1282127330 9786612127335 140209549X 1402095481 9048181534 9781402095481 Year: 2009 Volume: 15 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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Ars Topica is the first full-length study of the nature and development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes, between Aristotle and Cicero. Aristotle and Cicero configured topoi in a way that influenced the subsequent tradition. Their work on the topos-system grew out of an interest in creating a theory of argumentation which could stand between the rigour of formal logic and the emotive potential of rhetoric. This system went through a series of developments and transformations resulting from the interplay between the separate aims of gaining rhetorical effectiveness and of maintaining dialectical standards. Ars Topica presents a comprehensive treatment of Aristotle’s and Cicero’s methods of topoi and, by exploring their relationship, it illuminates an area of ancient rhetoric and logic which has been obscured for more than two thousand years. Through an interpretation which is philologically rooted in the historical context of topoi, the book lays the ground for evaluating the relevance of the classical approaches to modern research on arguments, and at the same time provides an introduction to Greek and Roman theory of argumentation focussed on its most important theoretical achievements.


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Aristotle's modal syllogistic
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ISBN: 9780674724549 0674724542 0674726359 0674727541 9780674726352 9780674727540 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Aristotle was the founder not only of logic but also of modal logic. In the Prior Analytics he developed a complex system of modal syllogistic which, while influential, has been disputed since antiquity--and is today widely regarded as incoherent. Combining analytic rigor with keen sensitivity to historical context, Marko Malink makes clear that the modal syllogistic forms a consistent, integrated system of logic, one that is closely related to other areas of Aristotle's philosophy. Aristotle's modal syllogistic differs significantly from modern modal logic. Malink considers the key to understanding the Aristotelian version to be the notion of predication discussed in the Topics--specifically, its theory of predicables (definition, genus, differentia, proprium, and accident) and the ten categories (substance, quantity, quality, and so on). The predicables introduce a distinction between essential and nonessential predication. In contrast, the categories distinguish between substantial and nonsubstantial predication. Malink builds on these insights in developing a semantics for Aristotle's modal propositions, one that verifies the ancient philosopher's claims of the validity and invalidity of modal inferences. While it acknowledges some limitations of this reconstruction, Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic brims with bold ideas, richly supported by close readings of the Greek texts.

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