Transcendental Dialectic

Concepts of Space in Greek Thought

“…(This is how Morsink (1982) 112, depicted the consequences of Owen's view). 114 This particular point is well brought out by Wardy (1991) esp. 95, and Nussbaum (l986a) 244-245.…”

“…However, this distinction between two kinds of dialectic finds no support whatsoever in Aristotle's texts and Irwin's approach appears to me to be fatally invalidated by a post-Kantian analytical bias which expresses itself in a number of anachronistic conceptions being read into Aristotle's text. For a pertinent critique of Irwin's book see now Wardy (1991 According to Owen it is also in this particular sense of the word phainomena that Aristotle argued that dialectical arguments can be said to start from the phainomena.86 Next, he argues that this ambiguity in the use of the term phainomenon is accompanied by a corresponding distinction in the use of various connected expressions. Thus, induction ( epagogi) does not necessarily start from the data of perception.…”