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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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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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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 ...
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Abstract My aim in this article is to elucidate the nature of a form of intellectual and practical neutrality that is not covered by existing accounts of suspension of judgment. After rejecting some inadequate characterizations of this attitude of neutrality, I provide a positive characterization of it: it is a successful effort to resist certain ...
Benoit Gaultier
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Why It Doesn’t Matter I’m Not Insane: Descartes’s Madness Doubt in Focus [PDF]
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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Sobre Contra os Gramáticos, de Sexto Empírico
This paper wants to show some points on Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Grammarians. This research has been made with some questions in the horizon – frighten ones.
Ana Paula El-Jaick
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Gorgias' Revising of Ancient Epistemology: on Non-Being by Gorgias and its Paraphrases
The philosophical nature of the two versions of paraphrasing the Gorgias’ treatise On Non-Being — the skeptical version by Sextus Empiricus and the peripatetic version by an anonymous author — are discussed.
Marina Volf
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Dialecticians and Stoics on the Classification of Propositions [PDF]
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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Synanaireĩsthai e Aufheben: alguns aspectos das dialéticas platônica e hegeliana
Explico, primeiramente, lançando mão dos textos de Platão, Aristóteles e Sexto Empírico, o sentido de synanaire)sthai no contexto da identificação das dimensões do ser e das faculdades da alma.
Leonardo Vieira
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