Scientific Realism and the Objects of Medicine in the Hippocratic Treatise On the Art
On the Art is a polemical treatise in the Hippocratic Corpus that has been dated to 450 – 400 BCE. As a polemical work, the author defends the existence of medicine against detractors. I argue that the author employs two arguments for scientific realism in defense of medicine that are among the earl...
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International Étienne Gilson Society
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Studia Gilsoniana |
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| Online Access: | http://gilsonsociety.com/files/03_Cales_229-248.pdf |