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What is wrong with lekta? Ancient critics of Stoic logic and language
Methodos, 2019 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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The Evidence in Ancient Philosophy
Azafea: Revista de Filosofía, 2014 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 SYSTEMATIC USE OF THE FIVE MODES FOR THE SUSPENSION OF JUDGEMENT
Manuscrito, 2019 The five modes are a list of tools used by ancient sceptics to guide dogmatic people towards suspending their judgement. Attributed to Agrippa (of uncertain date) and used extensively by Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd century CE), these modes are still ...
DANIEL VÁZQUEZ
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El escepticismo en el pensamiento político e histórico de David Hume [PDF]
, 2018 This essay argues that Hume’s political and historical thought is well read as skeptical and skeptical in a way that roots it deeply in the Hellenistic traditions of both Pyrrhonian and Academical thought. It deploys skeptical instruments to undermine
Fosl, Peter S.
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Scientific Realism, Adaptationism and the Problem of the Criterion [PDF]
, 2015 Scientific Realism (SR) has three crucial aspects: 1) the centrality of the concept of truth, 2) the idea that success is a reliable indicator of truth, and 3) the idea that the Inference to the Best Explanation is a reliable inference rule.
Sterpetti, Fabio
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Studia Philosophica WratislaviensiaThis paper examines the two contemporary interpretation models of the philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon formulated by Hermann Fränkel and Ernst Heitsch.
Sebastian Śpiewak
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Scetticismo e ricerca della verità. Nota sul termine ζήτησις in Sesto Empirico [PDF]
, 2016 This paper argues that Sceptic philosophers’ search for the truth is different from the Dogmatic one: the Sceptics indeed investigate the truth of Dogmatic philosophers’ theories.
Catapano, Massimo
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El problema de la aridad en la lógica estoica: El caso de la disyunción [PDF]
, 2016 Both ancient sources and contemporary authors seem to agree, in general, that the Stoic disjunction was exclusive. The problem is that some ancient sources inform that the Stoics also considered disjunctions with more than two disjuncts and stated that ...
López-Astorga, Miguel
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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- KalāmīProtagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard +3 more
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The Experience by Proxy: Hypotyposis and Historical Narrative from Antiquity to the Renaissance [PDF]
, 2016 As long as history was considered as magistrae uitae, it was necessary to give the readers the impression that they were seeing the recounted events and taking part in them, so that they could live them by proxy and gain from the experience of others ...
Zangara, Adriana
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