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Inference from Signs
Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence
Taschenbuch von James Allen
Sprache: Englisch

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James Allen presents an original and penetrating investigation of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. Allen masters a broad range of ancient texts, discussing Aristotle, the Sceptics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, to provide the first comprehensive treatment of his topic.
James Allen presents an original and penetrating investigation of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. Allen masters a broad range of ancient texts, discussing Aristotle, the Sceptics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, to provide the first comprehensive treatment of his topic.
Über den Autor
James was born in Toronto and graduated from York University in 1978. Over the next thirty years he was a successful Chartered Life Underwriter and financial advisor. Shortly after his beloved wife Regina passed away, after almost fifty years together, James retired to begin his career as a novelist. From Promise to Peril is the first of three books in a Trilogy in which he brings his amazing fictional characters to life by creatively weaving them throughout actual historical events. He now resides in Milton, Ontario close to his daughter, her husband and their three young children.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Study I: Aristotle on sign-inference and related forms of argument

  • Study I Appendix A: The text of Rhetoric, II 25, 1403a6-10

  • Study I Appendix B: Were there other developments in Aristotle's rhetorical theory?

  • Study II: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus' treatment of sign-inference

  • Study III; The Stoics on sign-inference and demonstration

  • Study III Appendix: The evidence for a Dialectical origin of the Stoic theory of signs

  • Study IV: Epicurean sign-inference in Philodemus

  • Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199550494
ISBN-10: 0199550492
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Allen, James
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: James Allen
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2008
Gewicht: 0,415 kg
Artikel-ID: 108624644
Über den Autor
James was born in Toronto and graduated from York University in 1978. Over the next thirty years he was a successful Chartered Life Underwriter and financial advisor. Shortly after his beloved wife Regina passed away, after almost fifty years together, James retired to begin his career as a novelist. From Promise to Peril is the first of three books in a Trilogy in which he brings his amazing fictional characters to life by creatively weaving them throughout actual historical events. He now resides in Milton, Ontario close to his daughter, her husband and their three young children.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Study I: Aristotle on sign-inference and related forms of argument

  • Study I Appendix A: The text of Rhetoric, II 25, 1403a6-10

  • Study I Appendix B: Were there other developments in Aristotle's rhetorical theory?

  • Study II: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus' treatment of sign-inference

  • Study III; The Stoics on sign-inference and demonstration

  • Study III Appendix: The evidence for a Dialectical origin of the Stoic theory of signs

  • Study IV: Epicurean sign-inference in Philodemus

  • Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Renaissance und Aufklärung
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199550494
ISBN-10: 0199550492
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Allen, James
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: James Allen
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2008
Gewicht: 0,415 kg
Artikel-ID: 108624644
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