Logic and semantics in Philodemus' De Signis

Diplôme Thèse Logic and semantics in Philodemus' De Signis eng 2018-06-15 author Bown Alexander 762158 director Crivelli Paolo 758299 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:105835 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1058353 L. 921 This dissertation is a study of the De Signis of the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara. In this treatise, he provides four accounts of how certain Epicureans defended their views on signs and sign-inference against the attacks of a group of opponents. I reconstruct and critically discuss these views on the basis of what is said about them in attack and defence. Two so-called 'methods of sign-inference' provide tests that allow one to establish that certain inferences are valid and certain conditionals true. The method of similarity applies to certain kinds of generalising inference, and is regarded as primary; the method of elimination, which licenses inferences from the existence of some phenomenon to that of an underlying state that is required by that phenomenon and explanatorily prior to it, is taken to be somehow dependent on the method of similarity. Philodemus Epicureanism Sign Semiotics Sign-inference Validity Conditionals Dewey 100/501 89 Département de philosophie 3G false b235a5db-22a3-4d54-9cec-fe8dc37c290d Thesis Restricted diss.pdf 1665994 application/pdf 2e5fb63d3c6b80c5f838561ed6ff8a0fb409ed0ad905c1748acc7d9ad442b0d0 restrictedAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de philosophie

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