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LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE CATALETTICA NELLA STOA POST-CRISIPPEA
Lexicon Philosophicum, 2018 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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, 2019 In ancient philosophy, there is no discipline called “logic” in the contemporary sense of “the study of formally valid arguments.” Rather, once a subfield of philosophy comes to be called “logic,” namely in Hellenistic philosophy, the field includes ...
Finley, Robby +2 more
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Why It Doesn’t Matter I’m Not Insane: Descartes’s Madness Doubt in Focus [PDF]
, 2011 Harry Frankfurt has argued that Descartes’s madness doubt in the First Meditation is importantly different from his dreaming doubt. The madness doubt does not provide a reason for doubting the senses since were the meditator to suppose he was mad his ...
Russo, Andrew
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus’s sceptical attack [PDF]
, 2017 Within a sort of conceptually homogeneous logical-epistemological arsenal that reflects a perspective marked by the dichotomy true/false, I would like to focus on one of the ‘logical’ sections of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, book II, namely:
Emidio Spinelli
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Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts [PDF]
, 2010 An intuitive view regarding the epistemic significance of disagreement says that when epistemic peers disagree, they should suspend judgment. This abstemious view seems to embody a kind of detachment appropriate for rational beings; moreover, it seems to
Aikin, Scott F. +2 more
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Philosophical Issues, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 167-183, October 2024.Abstract Several authors have recently argued that knowledge is not the aim of inquiry since it can make sense to inquire into a question even though one knows the answer. I argue that this a faulty diagnostic for determining whether one has met the constitutive standard of success of an activity type. The constitutive standards of success tell us when
Jaakko Hirvelä
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Dialecticians and Stoics on the Classification of Propositions [PDF]
, 1993 This paper discusses the reports in Diogenes Laertius and in Sextus Empiricus concerning the classification of propositions. It is argued that the material in Sextus uses a source going back to the Dialectical school whose most prominent members were ...
Ebert, Theodor
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Truth and falsehood for non-representationalists: Gorgias on the normativity of language [PDF]
, 2017 Sophists and rhetoricians like Gorgias are often accused of disregarding truth and rationality: their speeches seem to aim only at effective persuasion, and be constrained by nothing but persuasiveness itself.
Bermúdez, Juan Pablo
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