Redundancia, definición y predicación. Algunas lecciones de Tópicos VI 3

This paper is concerned with the strategy that Aristotle devises in his Topics to deal with an opponent trying to override a definition on the basis of its saying the same thing twice (or even several times). On the one hand, it is argued that Aristotle’s overall strategy owes less to specific featu...

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Author: Mittelmann, J. (Jorge)|||/items/ee0ec2c9-1069-4a96-a630-54ab5ada9738
Format: Article
Publication date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Navarra
Repository:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/29288
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/29288
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Definición
Predicables
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Summary:This paper is concerned with the strategy that Aristotle devises in his Topics to deal with an opponent trying to override a definition on the basis of its saying the same thing twice (or even several times). On the one hand, it is argued that Aristotle’s overall strategy owes less to specific features of definition itself than to the properties it shares with predication in general. On the other hand, it is shown that Aristotle’s solution relies on a particular dialectical skill which may prove useful in diagnosing other related troubles, especially the erroneous inferences outlined in De Interpretatione 11. It is argued that both prima facie redundant definitions and illicit compound predicates are elucidated by uncovering the hidden predicative character of some chains of terms.