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1The Stoics on Definitions and UniversalsDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 18 89-122. 2007.
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111‘ΠΡΟΤΑΣΙΣ’ in Aristotle’s Prior AnalyticsPhronesis 56 (3). 2011.It has often been claimed that (i) Aristotle's expression 'protasis' means 'premiss' in syllogistic contexts and (ii) cannot refer to the conclusion of a syllogism in the Prior Analytics. In this essay we produce and defend a counter-example to these two claims. We argue that (i) the basic meaning of the expression is 'proposition' and (ii) while it is often used to refer to the premisses of a syllogism, in Prior Analytics 1.29, 45b4-8 it is used to refer to the conclusion of a syllogism. In our…Read more
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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