Are the Fallacies Topoi?
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Are the Fallacies Topoi? / Ebbesen, Sten.
Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. red. / Laurent Cesalli; Leone Gazziero; C. Manekin; S. Rahman; Tony Street; Michaele Trizio. Turnhout : Brepols Academic Publishers, 2024. s. 25-43.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Are the Fallacies Topoi?
AU - Ebbesen, Sten
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - By general agreement, Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations (Soph. el.) is a sort of companion or appendix to the Topics. This raises the question whether its thirteen types of fallacious refutation (traditionally called “the thirteen fallacies”) are as many topoi. In the Latin Middle Ages this was a standard assumption, and for the medievals this had consequences for the way they interpreted the Soph. el. Modern commentators have shown little interest in the question. The essay will first examine the textual evidence for holding that Aristotle considered the fallacies topoi. The evidence is less clear than appears from modern editions, but it will be concluded that Aristotle did, indeed, think of the fallacies as topoi. Next, it will be argued that this being presupposed, we ought to consider re-introducing the medieval notion of sophistical pseudo-maxims corresponding to the genuine dialectical maxims of the Topics.
AB - By general agreement, Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations (Soph. el.) is a sort of companion or appendix to the Topics. This raises the question whether its thirteen types of fallacious refutation (traditionally called “the thirteen fallacies”) are as many topoi. In the Latin Middle Ages this was a standard assumption, and for the medievals this had consequences for the way they interpreted the Soph. el. Modern commentators have shown little interest in the question. The essay will first examine the textual evidence for holding that Aristotle considered the fallacies topoi. The evidence is less clear than appears from modern editions, but it will be concluded that Aristotle did, indeed, think of the fallacies as topoi. Next, it will be argued that this being presupposed, we ought to consider re-introducing the medieval notion of sophistical pseudo-maxims corresponding to the genuine dialectical maxims of the Topics.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - filosofihistorie
U2 - 10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137515
DO - 10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137515
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9782503608198
SP - 25
EP - 43
BT - Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions
A2 - Cesalli, Laurent
A2 - Gazziero, Leone
A2 - Manekin, C.
A2 - Rahman, S.
A2 - Street, Tony
A2 - Trizio, Michaele
PB - Brepols Academic Publishers
CY - Turnhout
ER -
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