Philodemus on signs
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Giovanni Manetti
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/2
Language Italian Pages 33 P. 165-197 File size 360 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2010-002013
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Philodemus’ treatise On Signs (40 BC) plays a fundamental role in the reconstruction of ancient semiotic thought. In fact, it presents a wide-ranging, sophisticated set of philosophical speculations concerning sign-inference. It consists of four parts, reporting a debate between the Epicureans and an opposig philosophical school (the Stoics, according to some scholars’ opinion). The first of the four parts is presented here in Italian translation. The Epicureans maintained the inference from signs, or semeiosis, to be a procedure based on similarity. The critics’ opposition was centred on the idea that an inference must be based not on similarity, but rather on anaskeué ("elimination", sometimes interpreted as "inference to the best explanation", and considered as a "criterion", not a "method"). Responding to their critics, the Epicureans elaborated instead a criterion of validity of the conditional that they defined as adianoesia ("inconceivability").
Keywords: Epicureans, Philodemus, Sign, Sign-inference, Similarity, Stoics.
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Giovanni Manetti, Un trattato sui segni in "PARADIGMI" 2/2010, pp 165-197, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2010-002013