10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APAGOGIC»
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apagogic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
apagogic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Scepticism Ant the Foundation of Epistemology: A Study in ...
Borrowing a technical term from Aristotle, I shall henceforth call any such strategy
apagogic.] Though rarely in the terms employed here so far, the need for an
apagogic solution of the metaepistemological problem has long been recognised
by ...
2
Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent ...
As the subject of an event, Irene is caught up in a process of what Badiou calls
apagogic reason. In apagogic reason, I suppose the truth of A, not because it is
self-evidently right or I can prove it, but because supposing the truth of non-A
leads ...
3
Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis
As Murti has pointed out, "Prasanga is not to be understood as an apagogic proof
in which we prove an assertion indirectly by disproving the opposite. Prasanga is
disproof simply, without the least intention to prove any thesis." 8 This is true as ...
David J. Kalupahana, 1976
191-203) takes as an established certainty Zeuthen's conjecture that the
demonstration alluded to in Plato's Theeetetus 147 D 3-6 was not an extension of
the traditional apagogic proof of the irrationality of \f2 40 but a new geometrical ...
Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Leonardo Tarán, 1977
5
Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and ...
Boredom at the long-wind- edness of the apagogic proof is not only typical of
Pascal, but also of Fermat, Wallis, Huygens, Leibniz and others.5 Even if the
apagogic proof re- mains the model and ultimate foundation, in the second half of
the ...
Ursula Goldenbaum, Douglas Jesseph, 2008
6
Critique of Pure Reason
The third rule peculiar to pure reason if this reason is subjected to a discipline
regarding transcendental proofs is this: that its proofs must never be apagogic but
always ostensive.3*4 A direct or ostensive proof is, in every kind of cognition, ...
7
The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the ...
Prasanga is not to be understood as an apagogic proof in which we prove an
assertion indirectly by disproving the opposite. Prasanga is disproof simply,
without the least intention to prove any thesis. All the arguments which Kant
adduces to ...
8
Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action
invention of which is usually attributed to Protagoras,44 Gorgias developed a
method sometimes called 'apagogic',45 in which the speaker sets out all the
possibilities and then argues against each in turn. Gorgias makes use of this
method in ...
Ian Worthington, Professor of History and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Classical Studies Ian Worthington, 2002
9
Readings from Classical Rhetoric
This is the apagogic method of arguing. The primary stylistic device employed by
Gorgias is antithesis. Antithesis is a real crowd pleaser, and used with the
apagogic method of argumentation, its effects can be bewitching. Gorgias is a
poet ...
Patricia P. Matsen, Philip B. Rollinson, Marion Sousa, 1990
10
Kant and the Early Moderns
According to one of several rules meant to “discipline” pure reason in its proof of
transcendental truths, [p]roofs must never be apagogic but always ostensive. The
direct or ostensive proof is, in all kinds of cognition, that which is combined with ...
Daniel Garber, Beatrice Longuenesse, 2008
