Inference from signs : ancient debates about the nature of evidence /
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
c2001.
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Sommario:
- Study I. Aristotle on sign-inference and related forms of argument
- Study I Appendix A: The text of Rhetoric, II 25, 1403a6-10
- Study I Appendix B: Were there other developments in Aristotle's rhetorical theory?
- Study II. Rationalism, Empiricism, and Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus' treatment of sign-inference
- Study III. The Stoics on sign-inference and demonstration
- Study III Appendix: The evidence for a Dialectical origin of the Stoic theory of signs
- Study IV. Epicurean sign-inference in Philodemus
- Conclusion.