Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Theory of Enthymeme: Between Defective and Ampliative Inference, Fosca Mariani Zini (University of Tours, France) 1. The Theories of the Enthymeme Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (325-880 Ca.), Renato De Filippis (University of Salerno, Italy) 2. Enthymemes in Al-Farabi’s and Avicenna’s Systems, Saloua Chatti (Tunis University, Tunisia) 3. Argumentum, Locus, and Enthymeme: Abaelard’s Transformation of the Topics into a Theory of Enthymematic Inference, Chris Martin (University Auckland, New Zealand) 4. The Logic of Enthymemes as (Incomplete) Syllogisms: 13th-Century Theories and Practices, Julie Brumberg (University of Paris, France) 5. Inference and Enthymeme in William Ockham, Paola Muller (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy) 6. Enthymematic Inferences in John Buridan, Barbara Bertocci (University of St Andrews, UK) 7. The Enthymeme from Signs and the Study of Nature in the Renaissance, Marco Sgarbi (Ca’ Foscari University, Italy) 8. “The Lion’ Fault”: The Enthymematic Foundation of Signatures, Marie-Luce Demonet (University of Tours, France) Bibliography Index

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Charts the enthymeme as Aristotle's sophisticated method of logical argumentation which was fiercely debated in the Middle Age and Renaissance periods.

About the Author

Fosca Mariani Zini is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Tours, France.

Reviews

This is a book on the history of the problem of how we demonstrate by means of enthymemes. It gives a consistent account of what has happened in the twelve centuries that separate Boethius from Ramus, and it contributes to our understanding of the connection between logic and rhetoric. It revives the tradition of Ciceronianism, of which Fosca Mariani Zini is a renowned authority.
*Riccardo Pozzo, Professor of the History of Philosophy, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy*