Five views of definienda in Alexander’s Quaestiones 1.3 and 2.14

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2021-0018" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/elen-2021-0018</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/elen-2021-0018" target="_blank" >10.1515/elen-2021-0018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Five views of definienda in Alexander’s Quaestiones 1.3 and 2.14

Original language description

In Quaestiones 1.3 and 2.14, Alexander presents a distinctly realist or essentialist view of the objects of definition, distinguished, on the one hand, from two types of realism rejected by Aristotle (definienda as separate forms and as particulars), and, on the other, from two types of conceptualism (non-essentialist and essentialist abstractivism) that probably belong within the Peripatetic tradition. The difference between Alexander’s view and essentialist abstractivism lies in his understanding of definienda not as the common concepts of things existing in the particulars, but as the common things conceived of as existing in the particulars. This paper offers a close reading of Quaest. 1.3, whose aim is to flesh out Alexander’s position vis-à-vis the objects of definition against the backdrop of the four rejected alternatives. The distinction between Alexander’s essentialism and the essentialist abstractivist notion of definienda is further explained in light of Quaest. 2.14. The amended Greek text of Quaest. 1.3 is appended with an English translation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-16937S" target="_blank" >GA20-16937S: Aristotelian demonstration in the theory and practice of Galen's medical science</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Elenchos

ISSN

0392-7342

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

42

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

351-374

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85122695756