Pithana and Probabilia in Sextus and Cicero
The paper looks again at the Carneadean pithanon. It is proposed that in the Carneadean scheme an impression's initial persuasiveness, prior to any testing or scrutiny, is taken to be due to the fact that its propositional content is consistent with views antecedently held by the subject, and t...
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Laboratory of History of Sciences and Philosophy - Archives Henri-Poincaré
2013
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