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I will deal with a cognitivist scientist of the fourth century BC, Aristotle, and his theory of the natural cognitive nature of bodies. I believe this can make a good contribution to the contemporary debate. Cognitivists do not usually have first-hand knowledge of him. Instead, above all thanks to Damasio, they know Spinoza, who however was indebted in turn to the Greek philosopher.
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For further details see Lo Piparo, Aristotele e il linguaggio, Laterza 2011 (1st ed. 2003).
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For instance, N. Humphrey, Seeing Red. A Study in Consciousness, 2006.
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The two different senses that would come to perceive the same object would be: (1) the sense that directly perceives the object; (2) the sense that, inasmuch as it perceives the sense-that-perceives-the-object, also indirectly perceives the object.
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Op. cit.
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“Le langage est une activité qui suppose, elle-même, une perpétuelle activité épilinguistique (définie comme ‘activité métalinguistique non consciente’).” A Culioli, La formalisation en linguistique, “Cahiers pour l’Analyse”, 9, pp. 108–17.
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The translation is mine. It does not always correspond to other available translations. In Aristotele e il linguaggio I explain the reasons for this.
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Almost all translations render “aísthesis of good and evil, of the just and the unjust” with “sense or sentiment of good and evil, of the just and the unjust.”
Abbreviations
- Cat.:
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Categoriae
- DA:
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De anima
- DGC:
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De generatione et corruptione
- DIA:
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De incessu animalium
- DI:
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De insomniis
- DMA:
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De motu animalium
- DMR:
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De memoria et reminiscentia
- DSV:
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De somno et vigilia
- DSS:
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De sensu et sensibilibus
- EN:
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Ethica nicomachea
- Met.:
-
Metaphysica
- Pol.:
-
Politica
- Rhet.:
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Ars rhetorica
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Piparo, F.L. (2020). On the Nature of Bodies. With the Help of Aristotle. In: Pennisi, A., Falzone, A. (eds) The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22090-7_5
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