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Aristotle's Formal Language, Mary Mulhern
Aristotle's Formal Language, Mary Mulhern
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
A formal language was invented by Aristotle and used by him in his lectures. This formal language consisted of Greek capital letters used as placeholders, arrayed in the schemata of the three figures recognized as authentically Aristotle’s. In these arrays, arcs under the placeholder letters indicate how the terms are linked in the premisses and conclusion and are read as some inflection of ΰπάρχειν, used by Aristotle as a second- order expression to convey the relation that the terms—not the designata of the terms-of a syllogism have to one another. It is further possible that Aristotle elaborated the three- term …
Forgery As Performance Art The Strange Case Of George Psalmanazar, Jack Lynch
Forgery As Performance Art The Strange Case Of George Psalmanazar, Jack Lynch
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
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'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Philosophers have had comparatively little to say of the art of dance, a surprising fact given the range of people both inside and outside of dance who have claimed that 'man has always danced.' This essay attempts to substantiate this claim by an inquiry into the origins of dance, its focal attention being on the word always and any linkage to males deriving from that focal point of attention. It begins with evolutionary considerations in the form of courtship displays, behaviors finely and extensively described by Darwin, and goes on to consider displays by chimpanzees in particular. These considerations point …
Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland
Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
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