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In this paper, I make a brief presentation of E. Watkins' interpretation of the Kantian causal model, and analyze some arguments that the author proposes against the possibility of understanding the third analogy of experience from the "event-event" model of causality. From an alternative reading of the Kantian texts, I try to demonstrate, against Watkins' view, that the third analogy of experience could be intelligible from the "event-event" model of causality, and that Watkins' model might render it unintelligible, or at least obscure, the meaning of the second analogy of experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to examine Aristotle's conception of the 'now', such as it is presented in Physics IV 10-14. The author argues that in the two main issues Aristotle tackles there (that is, whether time exists and what time is) the now is understood as being an inner limit of time, an understanding where the main emphasis is upon the condition of indivisibility of such a limit or, in other words, upon the fact that the now is not part of time. Baño concentrates on the analogy between 'now' and moving body, presented by Aristotle in order to account for the difficult thesis that the 'now' is always the same and, at once, always different. The issue the author is particularly concerned with is the fact that the moving body does not appear to be the same to movement as the 'now' is to time, since the moving body is not an inner limit of movement. Consequently, the analogy cannot be based on the punctual condition of the 'now', and rather it seems to be based on the fact that the 'now' is a principle of time cognition, such as the moving body is a principle of cognition of movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aristotle's metaphor seems to have cognitive power as a very useful tool in his poetical and rhetorical works. In spite of this positive approach to the metaphor, he criticizes it explicitly in Topics, where he is concerned about the exactness of terms. Even with these critical arguments, rhetorical and poetical aspects can be supported by an analysis of Topics' dialectical tools. Tools such as: reasoning, proofs and definition are likely to share some of their main characteristics with the metaphor. Clarity and knowledge are the means that link dialectic with Rhetoric and Poetic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a philosophical reflection about one of the most important Borges' narration: "La Biblioteca de Babel" (Babel's Library), where he set up some problems about the Universe-Library, the time and the eternity, the possible and the impossible, the phantasy and the reality, etc. That story lets us catch a glimpse on the analogical work underlying in its intimate structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author shows how the multiform (and nevertheless, articulated) richness of reality, which has been forgotten by univocist thinking of Enlightenment, was a central theme in Aristotelian philosophy by the noetic concept of analogy, and it also appears under the name of analogy and otherness in the poetical thinking of Octavio Paz and Antonio Machado; in the anthropological phenomenon of empatia, as it is conceived by Edith Stein; and under the greek concept of epimeleia in social science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author tries to recover the practic validity of Aristotelic philosophy, making emphasis in the study of formalism of the exemplar idea and in the inadequate use of analogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being is an analogical notion in Aristotle. There are several meanings of being, and some of them were misunderstood by the Latter Scholastic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]