Abstract
Abstract This article sketches, and works to motivate, a controversial approach to Posterior Analytics II.19. But its primary goal is to recommend a novel solution to one particular interpretive aporia that’s especially vexed recent scholars working on Post. An. II.19. The aporia concerns how to understand the enigmatic ē ek pantos... (≈ “or from all...”) in the genealogical account of foundational knowledge at II.19 100a3-9. Our proposed solution to the aporia is discussed in connection with a number of larger philosophical issues concerning Aristotle’s theory of epistē mē.
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IntroductionAporia (a1) concerns the question of whether humans (i) need to acquire nous of foundations, or (ii) always already have this knowledge
Particular interpretive aporia that’s especially vexed recent scholars working on Post
Our primary goal is to recommend a novel solution to one particular interpretive aporia that’s especially vexed recent scholars working on Post
Summary
Aporia (a1) concerns the question of whether humans (i) need to acquire nous of foundations, or (ii) always already have this knowledge A sentence of the form ‘from x or from y, z comes about’ is more plausibly interpreted as meaning either that x and y are two separate sources for z or that ‘y’ is an alternative way of specifying or picking out the same thing as is picked out by ‘x’, one that makes it clear what aspect of x is relevant to its being a source for z As the former does not apply here [i.e. the former gives an implausible reading of 100a6’se ek pantos...] Aristotle is using ‘experience or a universal having come to rest as a whole in the soul’ in the latter way.
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