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almafu_9959691305902883
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1 online resource (xiii, 433 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-28877-3
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1-316-32286-6
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1-316-30948-7
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1-316-32954-2
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1-316-32620-9
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1-316-31950-4
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1-316-33288-8
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1-107-70659-9
Inhalt:
The two books of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists have not received much attention in their own right, as sustained and methodical specimens of sceptical philosophy. This volume redresses the balance by offering a series of in-depth studies on them, focusing in particular on their overall argumentative structure and on the various ways in which their formal features relate to their contents, showing how Sextus' procedures vary from one section to the other, and throwing new light on the way he was using his sources. It follows Sextus' own division of these two books into nine successive topics, namely god, cause, wholes and parts, body, place, motion, time, number, coming-to-be and passing-away. These nine chapters are preceded by an introduction which discusses a number of general features of Sextus' scepticism and links the conclusions of this volume to some recent discussions on the scope of ancient scepticism.
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 God: M 9.13-194; Introduction; Order of composition; Structural oddities: M9 and 10 in general; Structural oddities: the section on God; Scepticism and ordinary religion: a problem; Some possible solutions and their failure; Appendix: Structural overview of M 9.13-19469; Chapter 2 Cause: M 9.195-330; Introduction; The structure of Sextus ́discussion of causation in PH 3 and M 9; The relativity of aitia
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Causal relations: dyadic or triadic?Causation in classical British empiricism: a relation between ideas; Conclusion; Appendix: Structural overview of M 9.195-330; Chapter 3 Wholes and parts: M 9.331-358; Introduction; M 9.331-58: The structure of the argument and some comments; M 9.331-58 and related texts; Wholes and parts as correlatives; Summnemoneusis: the evidence and its function; Summnemoneusis and the Stoics; Divided views; No reason to exclude the Stoics; Misguided attribution to the Stoics; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Body: M 9.359-440; Introduction; Setting the agenda
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The corporealists ́and the mathematicians ́conceptions of bodyExcursus: an oddity in the mathematicians ́definition of dimensions; The relationship between body and dimensions; The existence of dimensions: length and line; Point, line and surface; Point; Line; Derivation from point; Line is breadthless length; Touching limits; The final argument; Concluding remarks on relative chronology; Appendix I: Structural overview of M 9.359-440; Appendix II: The doxographical section; 1. Pseudo-Galen and Sextus; 2. Comparison of the parallel passages; 3. Overview of the inventory
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4. Additional remarks on the list in M 9Chapter 5 Place: M 10.1-36; Introduction; Sextus, PH 3.119-35: the argument and some comments; Sextus, M 10.1-36: the argument and some comments; The account of Sextus, M 10.119-35 and Aristotleś PHYSICS 4.1; The account in Sextus, M 10 and Aristotleś PHYSICS 4.4 and 4.5; The nature of Sextus ́scepticism and ancient conceptions of place; Chapter 6 Motion: M 10.37-168; Introduction; Introductory remarks (M 10.37-49); Conceptual considerations (M 10.50-60); How is motion discerned (M 10.61-5)?
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General arguments against the possibility of motion (M 10.70-84 cf. PH 3.67-9); The arguments of Diodorus Cronus: (I) Exposition (M 10.85-90); The arguments of Diodorus Cronus: (II) Objections, replies and further objections (M 10.91-111); The arguments of Diodorus Cronus: (III) Further arguments and replies (M 10.112-18); The arguments of Diodorus Cronus: (IV) Two final arguments (M 10.119-20); Arguments against those who suppose that space, time and body are all infinitely divisible (M 10.121-41); Arguments against those who suppose that all three are quantized (M 10.142-54)
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Arguments against those who think that some only are infinitely divisible (M 10.155-67)
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English
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ISBN 1-107-06924-6
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Englisch
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