Aristotle on false reasoning : language and the world in the Sophistical refutations /

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Author / Creator:	Schreiber, Scott G. (Scott Gregory), 1952-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 248 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
Subject:	Aristotle. Aristotle. Reasoning. Fallacies (Logic) Fallacies (Logic) Reasoning. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11129482

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ISBN:	1417524081 9781417524082 0791456595 9780791456590 0791456609 9780791456606 9780791487181 0791487180
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	"Presenting the first book-length study in English of Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations, this work takes a fresh look at this seminal text on false reasoning. Through a careful and critical analysis of Aristotle's examples of sophistical reasoning, Scott G. Schreiber explores Aristotle's rationale for his taxonomy of twelve fallacy types. Contrary to certain modern attempts to reduce all fallacious reasoning to either errors of logical form of linguistic imprecision, Aristotle insists that, as important as form and language are, certain types of false reasoning derive their persuasiveness from mistaken beliefs about the nature of language and the nature of the world."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Schreiber, Scott G. (Scott Gregory), 1952- Aristotle on false reasoning. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003 0791456595 0791456609

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Reasoning and the Sophistical Refutations
Ch. 1 Power of Names
Ch. 2 Homonymy and Amphiboly
Ch. 3 Form of the Expression
Ch. 4 Composition, Division, and Accent
Ch. 5 Resolutions of False Arguments
Ch. 6 Begging the Question and Non-Cause As Cause
Ch. 7 Accident and Consequent
Ch. 8 Secundum Quid
Ch. 9 Many Questions
App. 1 Paralogisms in Aristotle
App. 2 Words and Counters
Platonic Antecedents
App. 3 Aristotle on [kyrion] Predication
App. 4 Platonic and Academic Background to Secundum Quid.

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