Manuscrito (Nov 2019)

DISENTANGLING DEFINING AND DEMONSTRATING: NOTES ON AN. POST. II 3-7

  • LAURA M. CASTELLI

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2019.v42n4.lc
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 42, no. 4
pp. 243 – 281

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Abstract: In APo II 3-7 Aristotle discusses a series of difficulties concerning definition, deduction, and demonstration. In this paper I focus on two interrelated but distinct questions: firstly, what are exactly the difficulties emerging from or alluded to in the discussion in II 3-7; secondly, whether and in what sense the discussion in II 3-7 can be considered an aporetic discussion with a specific role to play in the development of the argument in APo II.

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