Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (Thursday - Week 2, MT25)

Abstract: In his Paraphrasis of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, Themistius claims that the intellect grasps the per se attributes of which axioms are composed. However, he does not give any examples, leaving his account unsubstantiated. I aim to show that Aristotle’s principles of non-contradiction and of excluded middle, which are axioms common to all demonstrative sciences, are derivable from the per se attributes that are part of Aristotle’s definition of contradiction.

If you would like to go out to dinner with the speaker after the talk, then please contact the chair of the meeting (listed above) before Tuesday of this week. The meals of the chair and the speaker are covered by the faculty; others attend at their own expense.