Fallacy: Close Reading and the Beginning of Philosophy

D. Vance Smith

doi:10.1525/rep.2017.140.1.27

Fallacy

Close Reading and the Beginning of Philosophy

D. Vance Smith

Representations, Vol. 140 No. 1, Fall 2017; (pp. 27-43) DOI: 10.1525/rep.2017.140.1.27

D. Vance Smith

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The precondition of rationality in Aristotelian syllogistic logic is fallacy. Medieval commentaries, in turn, treat fallacy as a nonreferential discourse, developing what is essentially a theorization of fictionality and its practices.

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