Without Qualification: An Inquiry Into the Secundum Quid

• Authors: David Botting
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper I will consider several interpretations of the fallacy of secundum quid as it is given by Aristotle in the Sophistical Refutations and argue that they do not work, one reason for which is that they all imply that the fallacy depends on language and thus fail to explain why Aristotle lists this fallacy among the fallacies not depending on language (extra dictione), amounting often to a claim that Aristotle miscategorises this fallacy. I will argue for a reading that preserves Aristotle’s categorization by a quite different account of how qualifications function.

Keywords

EN

fallacies; language; secundum quid; hasty generalization; the principle of non-contradiction

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 161-170

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-04-12

Contributors

author

David Botting

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2014-0008