1. IL "PROBABILE" NELLA SCIENZA FISICA DI ARISTOTELE.
- Author
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Palpacelli, Lucia
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PHYSICS , *SCIENCE , *TRUTH , *THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
In this paper, different scenarios in which the concept of "probable" is faced in Aristotle's work on physics are developed and deepened. This concept, indeed, plays a central and diversified role in Aristotle's physics, even though it is inserted into an idea of physics as science in a strong sense. Generally speaking, the idea of the probable is applied at three different levels: 1) a methodological level where it is linked to the value of truth, whose recognition is given to the predecessors' doxai and endoxai; 2) it is related to the contingent nature of the object that is becoming; 3) it is related to the deep awareness of the limit of human knowledge. In this paper, these three levels are detected and analyzed in order to show how, in physical field, Aristotle seems to "move" within the limits of a "probable reconstruction", but his physics remain always episteme in the highest and strictest meaning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011