Speaker: Paul Dekker
Title: Herakleitos' Distinction
Date:
Time:
14:00
- 14:00
Location: Room 001 (MFR), Philosophy Department, Vendelstraat 8, Amsterdam
Abstract:
Herakleitos' sparse remarks on a "logos" have been deemed
dark, but 2500 years later we can see that they are not as
dark as Wittgenstein's TLP. I will use modern findings to show
that they naturally fit in Wittgenstein's program, and that
they help us to transform Aristotle's square of opposition
into an obvious cube of opposition. If time permits I will
argue that Herakleitos' logic of distinction is also
appropriately conceived of as dynamic in nature, and that it
naturally fits his own, even more sparse, remarks on ethical
matters.
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