Original and penetrating, this book investigates of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. It examines an important chapter in ancient epistemology: the debates about the nature of evidence and of the inferences based on it--or signs and sign-inferences as they were called in antiquity. As the first comprehensive treatment of this topic, it fills an important gap in the histories of science and philosophy.
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"This excellent book provides a number of new historical and exegetical takes on an important chapter in Hellenistic epistemology. Allen's ideas will be at the center of future debates in the field."--Ancient Philosophy
"Allen's brilliant investigation of the various strands in Sextus' chapters on signs is a masterpiece of historical as well as philosophical scholarship...This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of Hellenistic epistemology...will quickly become the authoritative work on this important chapter in the histories of science and philosophy.'"--Gisela Striker, Harvard University
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James Allen is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.
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ancient philosophy, commemorative signification, connective account, enthymemes depending, indicative signification, reputable argument, genuine enthymeme, inference from motion, categorical syllogistic, historia philosopha, argument from likelihood, apparent enthymeme, third indemonstrable, optima secta, genus sign, hypothetical premisses, elimination inferences, artificial divination, connective conditional, argument from signs, elimination account, similarity inferences, qua relations, negated conjunction, natural divination Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prior Analytics, Sophistical Refutations, Oxford University Press, Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, Posterior Analytics, Origins of Non-deductive, Des Epicureers Philodemus, Diogenes Laertius, The Hellenistic Philosophers, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Die Philosophie, Index Aristotelicus, Oxford Studies, Der Text, Scientific Method Browse Sample Pages:
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