Topics

Aristotle. Topics.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Link

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0060

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philosophy

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Primes

• Dialectic
  • the Socratic practice of leading an interlocutor through questions that expose contradictions in their initial position, a cycle formalized in Aristotle's Topics and continued in medieval scholasticism (quaestio-respondeo-responsiones); (2) the joint-refinement convergence

    This sourceDefines dialectic as reasoning from endoxa (reputable opinions) and catalogues the topoi for arguing either side of a thesis, distinguishing dialectical (probable) from demonstrative (necessary) reasoning; supports the joint-refinement-convergence claim and the elenchus-formalized-in-Topics reference (183).

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