Abstract

My aim is to show that, in Posterior Analytics B 8, the conception of lunar eclipse brought about by pre-demonstrative knowledge (hoti) is deeply vague and radically different from the one obtained by demonstrative knowledge (dioti).

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  • [...] it has been said (a) how the what it is is grasped and comes to be known, so that (b) neither syllogism nor demonstration of the what it is comes to be, (c) it becomes clear through syllogism and demonstration

  • (d) neither is possible to know the what it is without demonstration (b’) nor there is demonstration of it, (e) as we have said in the puzzles (APo B 8, 93b15-20)

  • Aristotle concludes B 8 assuming that both are true, indicating his commitment to a comprehension of b and d according to which the incompatibility was merely apparent.1. Such an incompatibility can be avoided by assuming that b applies only to accounts belonging to the second one among the four types of definition listed in APo B 10

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Introduction

The pre-demonstrative knowledge (hoti) of the lunar eclipse brought about in APo B 8 (93a39-93b3) has to presuppose an unclear conception of this astronomical phenomenon. What is relevant is the fact that, like Barnes and Porchat, Code understands the precise account (logos) described as unclear without the cause in H 4 not as the entire essence of the lunar eclipse, but a certain part of it, namely, the privation of light, which is identified as the cause hôs eidos.

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