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Sextus Empiricus on Fallacies and Expert Knowledge

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 2026


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Edition
1/2026
Copyright Year
2026
ISBN-Print
978-3-7965-5486-5
ISBN-Online
978-3-7965-5487-2
Publisher
Schwabe, Basel / Berlin
Series
Philosophical Studies in Ancient Thought
Volume
4
Language
English
Pages
114
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Table of Contents No access
    2. Abbreviations No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 9 - 14
    1. 1.1 What is a fallacy?_#0.00.00.00 No access
    2. 1.2 The classification of fallacies_#0.00.00.00 No access
    3. 1.3 The Stoics on assent to conclusions_#0.00.00.00 No access
    4. 1.4 Interim conclusion_#0.00.00.00 No access
    1. 2.1 The expertise argument and its place in Sextus’s chapter on fallacies_#0.00.00.00 No access
        1. 2.2.1.1 Instances of the first premise: Fallacies and (some) solutions_#0.00.00.00 No access
        2. 2.2.1.2 “Useful” and “useless”_#0.00.00.00 No access
      1. 2.2.2 Second premise: Why dialecticians in particular are able to solve fallacies whose solutions are useless anyway_#0.00.00.00 No access
      2. 2.2.3 Third premise: Why it is experts in special sciences who are able to solve those fallacies that are useful to be solved_#0.00.00.00 No access
    1. 3.1 Historical background_#0.00.00.00 No access
    2. 3.2 Galen on logic, demonstrations, and fallacies_#0.00.00.00 No access
    3. 3.3 Galen on skepticism and sophistry_#0.00.00.00 No access
  2. 4 Conclusion No access Pages 95 - 98
    1. Primary sources_#0.00.00.00 No access
    2. Translations_#0.00.00.00 No access
    3. Secondary literature_#0.00.00.00 No access
  3. Index No access Pages 107 - 113

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