The Research Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens invites you to the first meeting of the Monthly Philosophy Seminar for the academic year 2023-2024 which will take place on Wednesday 25 October 2023\, \;16:00-18:00 (ATH\, GR timezone) at the Elli Lambridis Philosophical Library (9 Hypsilantou str.\, Athens).
\nSpeaker: \;Doukas Kapantais\, Research Director at the RCGPh\, Academy of Athens
\nTopic: \;Prior Analytics 1.23\; an elimination theorem to avail the scientist and the dialectician alike.
\nThose interested may attend either in person or via Zoom at the following link: \;
\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/9147464241?pwd=Tyt3VGIrS3FFN1h6UVZIVmRjbEdYZz09
\nMeeting ID: 914 \;746 4241
\nPasscode: 621567
\n\;ABSTRACT
\nI apprehend the \;Prior Analytics \;not as a treatise about a single &ldquo\;formal&rdquo\; theory but as a treatise on the deductive interplay between two such theories: (i) what Corcoran\, Smiley and others have identified as the Syllogistic\, and (ii) the fourteen syllogisms of the scholastics. The metatheory exploring their properties and deductive interaction is a contentual theory containing (primarily) the \;dicta\, a pretheoretical \;reductio ad impossibile \;rule\, and the square of opposition. \;The above interplay&ndash\;I claim&ndash\;culminates in the construction of the algorithmic \;apparatus \;in 1.28 aimed at availing both scientists and dialecticians. I take stock of some puzzling claims by Aristotle according to which whatever can be proved by \;reductio ad impossibile \;can also be proved ostensively. I argue that apprehending the content of the \;Prior Analytics \;that way vindicates these claims.
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