Disagreement in Aristotle’s Topics and Its Latin Medieval Reception
(2020) p.407-420- Abstract
- This paper aims to shed light on the Aristotelian notion of dissent and its understanding in the medieval reception of Aristotle’s dialectics. Dissent is fundamental in Aristotle’s Topics, although its exact nature is not clear. Specifically, it is unclear whether dissent is essentially related to an epistemic quality of the premises involved, or whether it simply amounts to social disagreement about them, regardless of their epistemic quality. Medieval scholars clearly opt for the former reading. We aim to show that this owes to their understanding of logic as a tool for science.
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- author
- Mora Marquez, Ana Maria
LU
and Fernandez Walker, Gustavo
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Medieval Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
- host publication
- Reason to dissent : Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation - Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation
- editor
- Dutilh Novaes, Catarina ; Jansen, Henrike ; van Laar, Jan Albert and Verheij, Bart
- pages
- 407 - 420
- ISBN
- 978-1-84890-331-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
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- baad93e4-c5eb-4bbd-bb0c-4ba0fcb03170
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