Aristotle on false reasoning: language and the world in the "Sophistical Refutations"
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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- Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
- ISBN13 9780791456606
- ISBN10 0791456609
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 248
- Año de Edición 2003
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Filosofía AntiguaAristotle on false reasoning: language and the world in the "Sophistical Refutations"
Editorial STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Presenting the first book-length study in English of Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations, this work takes a fresh look at this seminal text on false reasoning. Through a careful and critical analysis of Aristotle's examples of sophistical reasoning, Scott G. Schreiber explores Aristotle's rationale for his taxonomy of twelve fallacy types. Contrary to certain modern attempts to reduce all fallacious reasoning to either errors of logical form of linguistic imprecision, Aristotle insists that, as important as form and language are, certain types of false reasoning derive their persuasiveness from mistaken beliefs about the nature of language and the nature of the world.