Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper I offer a new reading of the final arguments of Metaphysics Γ4, from a cognitive approach. Against a number of different positions, I argue that the passage 1008b2-1009a5 provides arguments that are not contained in the preceding proofs of the chapter. Furthermore, I try to show that these arguments are not dislocated but that, under this approach, they are revealed to be articulated under the same subject relative to mental states and contents, and also by the same objective: to preserve the cognitive thesis with which Aristotle characterizes the principle of non-contradiction in Γ3 1005b11-14. Given the discrepancies between the editors of the text and the difficulties arising from textual paradosis, I have once again revised manuscripts J, E and Ab. The results of that examination include lectiones never before noted, one of which (from ms. J) improves, in my judgment, the difficult argument presented between lines 1008b3-10. The final part of this study offers the results of my examination in the form of a new text of the entire passage, with translation and commentary
Source: Journal of Ancient Philosophy
Author: Eduardo H. Mombello
Institution: Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411152500