Venerdì, 6 maggio 2022 ore 11:00
Plesso didattico di via Capponi 9 - Aula 7
Paolo Maffezioli (Università di Torino)
Aristotle's arithmetical dictum
Abstract: In Prior Analytics Aristotle explains the universal predication by resorting to an intuitively clear, albeit quite elusive, mereological notion - that of being in the whole. Building on previous scholarly work on the mathematical origins of Aristotle's syllogistic, it is suggested that for Aristotle a universal affirmative proposition such as 'x is predicated of all y' is true if, and only if, y is a divisor of x. The adequacy of such an interpretation is assessed both theoretically and textually with respect to the other mereological interpretations of the dictum. This is a joint work with Riccardo Zanichelli.