Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions 

Editors Leone Gazziero, Laurent Cesalli, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio 

Book series: Ad argumenta, 4

Place: publisher, year: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023

Pages: 272 p.

pISBN: 978-2-503-60819-8

eISBN: 978-2-503-60820-4

doi: 10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.135309

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Fallacy studies are a well established and fast expanding field of argumentation theory. Without notable exception, however, the evergrowing literature on argumentative failure suffers from a conspicuous lack of interest in medieval fallacy theory - arguably the most creative stage in the whole history of argumentation theories. The standard story is that after Aristotle got off to a tentative start, the study of fallacies lay dormant until people at Port Royal and John Locke revived it in spectacular fashion. The volume will show that this picture is both inaccurate and misleading. By working its way from the inside out within each medieval world, Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions will provide ample and unambiguous record of the exegetical proficiency, technical expertise and argumentative savoir-faire typically displayed by medieval authors on issues about flawed arguments which are all too often our own.

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Table of Contents

Front Matter ("Table of Contents"), p. 1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.141435

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. Introduction, p. 7 Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Michele Trizio https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137514

Are the Fallacies Topoi?, p. 25 Sten Ebbesen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137515

The Fallacia Consequentis between Term Logic and Sentence Logic in its Medieval Reception, p. 45 Costantino Marmo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137516

“Qui imperitus est vestrum, primus calculum omittat”. Aristotelis Sophistici Elenchi 1 in the Boethian Tradition, p. 75 Leone Gazziero https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137517

Theology, Fallacious Reasoning and Heresy on the Borders of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Some Remarks on the Fallaciae in theologia and Amalricians, p. 119 Irene Caiazzo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137518

Byzantine Treatments of Fallacy: The Reception of Aristotle’s Account, p. 131 Melpomeni Vogiatzi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137519

Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic, p. 153 Shahid Rahman, Walter Edward Young https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137520

A Forgotten Mereological Paradox, p. 187 Hassan Rezakhany https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137521

Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi, p. 209 Charles H. Manekin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137522

Fallacies in Rabbinical Thought, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and in the Treatise on Talmudic Methodology by Abraham Elijah Cohen, p. 231 Aviram Ravitsky https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137523

Are Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion Fallacies? Evidence from the Hebrew Aristotelian Logical Tradition, p. 249 Yehuda Halper https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137524