James Allen

Inference from Signs

Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence

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Produktbeschreibung

James Allen presents an original and penetrating investigation of the notion of inference from signs, which played a central role in ancient philosophical and scientific method. Allen masters a broad range of ancient texts, discussing Aristotle, the Sceptics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans, to provide the first comprehensive treatment of his topic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550494
• ISBN-10: 0199550492
• Artikelnr.: 24879290

Autorenporträt

James was born in Toronto and graduated from York University in 1978. Over the next thirty years he was a successful Chartered Life Underwriter and financial advisor. Shortly after his beloved wife Regina passed away, after almost fifty years together, James retired to begin his career as a novelist. From Promise to Peril is the first of three books in a Trilogy in which he brings his amazing fictional characters to life by creatively weaving them throughout actual historical events. He now resides in Milton, Ontario close to his daughter, her husband and their three young children.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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