The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme
Proof and Belief in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme
Proof and Belief in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
About this book
The Legacy of Aristotelian Enthymeme provides a historical-logical analysis of Aristotle's rhetorical syllogism, the enthymeme, through its Medieval and Renaissance interpretations. Bringing together notions of credibility and proof, an international team of scholars highlight the fierce debates around this form of argumentation during two key periods for Aristotle's beliefs. Reflecting on medieval and humanist thinkers, philosophers, poets and theologians, this volume joins up dialectical and rhetorical argumentation as key to the enthymeme's interpretation and shows how the enthymeme was the source of a major interpretive conflict. As a method for achieving the standards for proof and credibility that persist across diverse fields of study today including the law, politics, medicine and morality, this book takes in Latin and Persian interpretations of the enthymeme and casts contemporary argumentation in a new historical light.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: The theory of enthymeme: Between defective and ampliative inference
- 1 The theories of the enthymeme between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (c. 325–880)
- 2 Enthymemes in al-Fārābī’s and Avicenna’s systems
- 3 Argumentum, locus and enthymeme: Abaelard’s transformation of the topics into a theory of enthymematic inference
- 4 The logic of enthymemes as (incomplete) syllogisms: Thirteenth-century theories and practices
- 5 Inference and enthymeme in Ockham
- 6 Enthymematic inferences in John Buridan
- 7 The enthymeme from signs and the study of nature in the Renaissance
- 8 The lion’s fault: The enthymematic foundation of signatures
- Index
- Copyright