Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Source Publication

Elenchos

Source ISSN

0392-7342

Abstract

The core sense of pistis as understood in Posterior Analytics, De Anima, and the Rhetoric is not that of a logical relation in which cognitively grasped propositions stand in respect to one another, but the result of an act of socially embedded interpersonal communication, a willing acceptance of guidance offered in respect to action. Even when pistis seems to have an exclusively epistemological sense, this focal meaning of pistis is implicit; to have pistis in a proposition is to willingly accept that proposition as a basis for some kind of activity (albeit possibly theoretical) as a result of some kind of communicative act. This is in accordance with Aristotle’s understanding of argumentation as a social practice, entered into in order lead others to certain actions, for certain ends. Understanding pistis in this way allows us to understand how it is that pistis admits of quantitative variation.

Comments

Published version. Elenchos, Vol. 41, No. 1 (2020): 49-70. DOI. © 2020 ACM, Inc. Used with permission.

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