Formal Language and Natural Language in the Aristotelian Theory of the Syllogism
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.54.2024.31297Keywords:
Aristotle, syllogism, forma logic, pure thought, natural language, semantic ambiguityAbstract
This paper proposes to lay the foundations for a turn of the habitual interpretations of the Aristotelian syllogistic theory. In our reading we do not start from the normative concept of a hypothetical «pure thought» to which the Aristotelian logic would try to access for the first time. Rather, the Aristotelian research of the Analitics would start from the implicit use of a term (ὑπάρχειν + dat.) in ordinary language (the usual procedure of his investigations) in order to explore the different meanings that such uses presuppose. The syllogism would be the tool to carry out this work so that the ambiguities that it reveals will not be errors to be solved by the interpreter but, rather, the irreducible expression of the interpretandum itself.
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