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Disagreement in Aristotle’s Topics and Its Latin Medieval Reception

Mora Marquez, Ana Maria LU orcid and Fernandez Walker, Gustavo (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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Reason to dissent : Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation - Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation
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Dutilh Novaes, Catarina ; Jansen, Henrike ; van Laar, Jan Albert and Verheij, Bart
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407 - 420
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978-1-84890-331-9
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  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.}},
  author       = {{Mora Marquez, Ana Maria and Fernandez Walker, Gustavo}},
  booktitle    = {{Reason to dissent : Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Argumentation}},
  editor       = {{Dutilh Novaes, Catarina and Jansen, Henrike and van Laar, Jan Albert and Verheij, Bart}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-84890-331-9}},
  keywords     = {{Medieval Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{407--420}},
  title        = {{Disagreement in Aristotle’s Topics and Its Latin Medieval Reception}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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