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Prospects For Peircean Epistemic Infinitism [PDF]
Epistemic infinitism is the view that infinite series of inferential relations are productive of epistemic justification. Peirce is explicitly infinitist in his early work, namely his 1868 series of articles.
Aikin, Scott F.
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LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE CATALETTICA NELLA STOA POST-CRISIPPEA
The article aims to evaluate some appreciable contributions by post-Chrysippean Stoics to the theory of cognitive (kataleptic) impression and its role as a criterion of truth.
Francesca Alesse
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The Evidence in Ancient Philosophy
Enargeia became a technical term –to which Cicero coined the neologism evidentia for its translation– in the Hellenistic Epistemology, so it seems, beginning from Epicurus.
Javier AOIZ
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The risks of fragmentation of the Roman Empire were very high at the time of the Civil Wars. From 49 to 31 B.C., the command of the seas and the future of the empire were associated to political events.
Elizabeth Deniaux
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Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value? [PDF]
My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian skepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus’s extant works, has practical or epistemic value.
Machuca, Diego E.
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Untying the gorgianic ‘not’: Argumentative structure in on not-being [PDF]
Gorgias’ On Not-Being survives only in two divergent summaries. Diels–Kranz's classic edition prints the better-preserved version that appears in Sextus’ Aduersus Mathematicos.
Rodriguez, Evan
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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]
: Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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Skepticism and Disagreement [PDF]
Though ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism is apparently based on disagreement, this aspect of skepticism has been widely neglected in contemporary discussion on skepticism.
Lammenranta, Markus
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On the Status of Natural Divination in Stoicism [PDF]
Cicero’s De divinatione portrays the Stoics as unanimous in advocating both natural and technical divination. I argue that, contrary to this, the earlier leaders of the school like Chrysippus had reasons to consider natural divination to be significantly
Stojanovic, Pavle
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What is wrong with lekta? Ancient critics of Stoic logic and language
In this paper, the Stoic theory of lekta is presented from the point of view of three main critical responses: the Peripatetics, Sextus Empiricus and an internal challenge posed by Seneca. The critiques focus on questions about language, but the detailed
Ada Bronowski
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