Intuition, discursive thought, and truth in Aristotle

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (4):597-613 (2022)
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Chapter Θ10 of Aristotle's Metaphysics is traditionally taken to be about the truth of intuitions, namely episodes of an immediate and sub-propositional grasp of entities. This exegesis however saddles Aristotle with a broken-backed theory of truth because in other passages of his works he claims that truth and falsehood apply only to items of a propositional nature and denies that sub-propositional items can be true or false. An alternative exegesis is preferable which takes Θ10 to be about the truth of existential statements and judgements concerning simple items.

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10.1080/09608788.2022.2049695

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Paolo Crivelli
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