Signs and Demonstrations from Aristotle to Radulphus Brito

ISBN-13: 9789004543157 / Angielski

Costantino Marmo; Francesco Bellucci

Opis

In the Posterior Analytics Aristotle contrasts demonstrations with syllogisms through signs. In the Prior Analytics he defines a sign as a demonstrative premise. One is thus led to ask: is a sign a demonstration? This book reconstructs the history of the notion of “demonstration through signs” from roughly the third through to the thirteenth century. It examines the work of Aristotle’s Greek, Arabic, and Latin commentators, both within and outside the tradition of the Posterior Analytics.

O autorze

Costantino Marmo, Ph.D. (University of Bologna, 1992), is Full Professor of Semiotics and History of Semiotics at the University of Bologna. He has published articles, editions of texts, and books, including Semiotica e linguaggio nella Scolastica. La semiotica dei Modisti (Rome, 1994), and La semiotica del XIII secolo(Milan, 2010).
Francesco Bellucci, Ph.D. (University of Siena, 2012), is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna. He has published in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, The British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Journal of the History of Ideas.