LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE CATALETTICA NELLA STOA POST-CRISIPPEA

The article aims to evaluate some appreciable contributions by post-Chrysippean Stoics to the theory of cognitive (kataleptic) impression and its role as a criterion of truth. The inquiry focuses on two testimonies: Sextus Empiricus, M, VII, 253-257, where we find a significant variation – introduce...

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Main Author: Francesca Alesse
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: ILIESI 2018-12-01
Series:Lexicon Philosophicum
Online Access:https://lexicon.cnr.it/ojs/index.php/LP/article/view/565
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Summary:The article aims to evaluate some appreciable contributions by post-Chrysippean Stoics to the theory of cognitive (kataleptic) impression and its role as a criterion of truth. The inquiry focuses on two testimonies: Sextus Empiricus, M, VII, 253-257, where we find a significant variation – introduced by some ‘recent Stoics’ – of the ancient Stoic theory of the clauses that an impression is supposed to satisfy in order to be considered not only kataleptic, i.e. worthy of assent, but also a criterion of truth; and PBerol. inv. 16545 containing the version of the theory of clauses of the cognitive impression developed by Antipater of Tarsus.
ISSN:2283-7833