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Luca Gili

Vilnius University
University of Chieti and Pescara
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    Back to Bekker. Syntactic Remarks on Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 170 B19–26
    with Lorenzo Ferroni
    Méthexis 30 (1): 60-71. 2018.
    This paper offers a syntactic analysis of Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations, 170 b19–26. Several conjectures have been proposed to simplify the passage. We show that no conjectural activity is needed and that the text transmitted by the manuscripts and printed by I. Bekker (1831) fits within the context of Aristotle’s argument and is consistent with his style.
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    Ammonius and Philoponus on the Activity of Syllogizing
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 24 (1): 140-160. 2021.
    According to Philoponus, the activity of drawing syllogisms is a dynamic operation. Following the classical idea that actions are specified by their objects and habitual powers by their actions, Philoponus concludes that only a dynamic power can elicit the act of syllogizing. This power is identified with discursive reasoning (dianoia). Imagination, on the contrary, is a static power, that cannot elicit that particular motion of drawing a syllogistic inference. The issue, however, is not entirel…Read more
  • Actes du colloque Influences étrangères (edited book)
    with Benoît Castelnérac and Laetitia Monteils-Laeng
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    Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Heterodox dictum de omni et de nullo
    History and Philosophy of Logic 36 (2): 114-128. 2015.
    Aristotle's explanation of what is said ‘of every’ and ‘of none’ has been interpreted either as involving individuals, or as regarding exclusively universal terms. I claim that Alexander of Aphrodisias endorsed this latter interpretation of the dictum de omni et de nullo. This interpretation affects our understanding of Alexander's syllogistic: as a matter of fact, Alexander maintained that the dictum de omni et de nullo is one of the core principles of syllogistic
    Commentators on Aristotle