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32 - Philosophy
University of Oxford
Aristotele e i paralogismi dell'identità
In his Sophistical Refutations Aristotle introduces a fallacy “due to accident” which has attracted scholarly attention because it hinges on problems concerning identity remarkably akin to modern puzzles of referential opacity. Aristotle, however, attempts to describe the fallacy in several apparently diverging ways, and even though he provides many examples, these look so heterogeneous that it is hard to see why they should belong to the same pattern. The paper addresses these problems by identifying a general rationale for the fallacy, reconstructing most of the examples from Aristotle’s sketchy descriptions, and showing that they fit the suggested pattern.