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Aristotelian and Boolean Properties of the Keynes-Johnson Octagon of Opposition
Around the turn of the 20th century, Keynes and Johnson extended the well-known square of opposition to an octagon of opposition, in order to account...
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Modern Aristotelian and Thomistic Accounts
While previous chapters tended to present Aristotelian and Thomistic accounts in terms of their own words, there have also been disagreements among...
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Aristotelian Dialectic, Argumentation Theory and Artificial Intelligence
It is shown that Aristotelian dialectic can be analyzed as having two parts: a core formal model that has a formal dialogue structure and a set of...
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Syllogistic Relevance and Term Logic
Term Functor Logic is a term logic that recovers some important features of the traditional, Aristotelian logic; however, it turns out that it does...
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Logic-Sensitivity and Bitstring Semantics in the Square of Opposition
This paper explores the interplay between logic-sensitivity and bitstring semantics in the square of opposition. Bitstring semantics is a...
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From the Method of Division to the Theory of Transformations: Thompson After Aristotle, and Aristotle After Thompson
Aristotle’s influence on D’Arcy Thompson was praised by Thompson himself and has been recognized by others in various respects, including the...
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Polanyi’s Copernican Realism: Content, Reception, and Relation to Three Contemporary Realisms
This chapter examines existing interpretations of the most widely commented-upon aspect of Michael Polanyi’s metaphysics, his metaphysical realism. I...
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The Infinite Academy
“Do you own a dog or a cat? If your answer was a dog, you’re an Aristotelian. […] If your answer was a cat, you score one as a Platonist.” It is in...
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Aristotelian diagrams for semantic and syntactic consequence
Several authors have recently studied Aristotelian diagrams for various metatheoretical notions from logic, such as tautology, satisfiability, and...
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Comets in Renaissance Science
The study of comets in the Renaissance is here presented from the viewpoint of the reception of ancient philosophical theories and of their interplay...
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From Theory of Rhetoric to the Practice of Language Use: The Case of Appeals to Ethos Elements
In their book Commitment in Dialogue , Walton and Krabbe claim that formal dialogue systems for conversational argumentation are “not very realistic...
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Existential Inertia: Motivations and Defense
Here we survey arguments for and against the Existential Inertia Thesis (EIT). We begin by sketching a variety of motivations for EIT. These include...
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Refining Technopoiesis: Measures and Measuring Thinking in Ancient China
Most recently, two distinctions—echoing the cross-disciplinary critique of the teleological and “quantitative” approach of human arts and sciences at...
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Propter quid demonstrations: Roger Bacon on geometrical causes in natural philosophy
In Posterior Analytics 1.13, Aristotle introduced a distinction between two kinds of demonstrations: of the fact ( quia ), and of the reasoned fact ( pro...
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Christine Ladd and the Form of Syllogisms
Christine Ladd wasSyllogismform of syllogisms a promising mathematician who converted to logic and philosophy under the guidance of Charles S....
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Can We “Show” the Correctness of Reasoning? On the Role of Diagrammatic Spatialization in Logical Justification
Our aim is to show that the “analytical diagrams” in the sense of Venn play a role that goes far beyond the simple pedagogical interest. In the first...
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Aristotelian Causation and Neural Correlates of Consciousness
Neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are neural states or processes correlated with consciousness. The aim of this article is to present a...
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Encyclopedia and Encyclopedism
Renaissance encyclopedism can be understood in terms of the history of problems, the history of concepts, book history, and cultural history....
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Aristotle, Egoism, and the Common Advantage
Contemporary neo-Aristotelians disagree about whether Aristotle’s work can contribute to rather than compete with or replace modern political...
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Logic of Diagrams
Venn-Peirce diagram system has been extended with the incorporation of individuals and absence of individuals. Three types of diagram-logic system...