El realismo, el empirismo y el sinequismo de Aristóteles y Peirce
Realism, empiricism and synechism of Aristotle and Peirce
Abstract (en)
This paper aims to track the presence of the terms realism, empiricism
and synechism in Aristotle’s and Peirce’s theories of cognition. The two
first terms have been usually related to both authors, however in this
article it is intended to expose at detail what similarities and differences
there are between these two philosophers’ realism and empiricism.
On the other hand, synechim is only related to Peirce’s philosophy,
whereas Aristotle is pointed out precisely as a contradictor of any idea
of continuum or infinitum. What is meant to show in the paper is that,
at least in the field of cognition, Aristotle is also a synechist. Another
important point of this article is that attempt to criticize and correct
Peirce’s interpretation of Aristotle’s empiricism due to the fact that
former claims erroneously that latter is an intuitionist.
Keywords: Realism, empiricism, synechism, Aristotle, Charles S. Peirce,
perception, perceptual judgment.
Abstract (es)
Este artículo rastrea la presencia del realismo, el empirismo y el sinequismo en las teorías de la cognición de Aristóteles y de Charles S. Peirce. Los dos primeros términos se relacionan comúnmente con ambos autores, pero aquí se quiere precisar en detalle qué semejanzas y diferencias hay entre el realismo y el empirismo de estos dos filósofos. De otro lado, el sinequismo se relaciona solo con Peirce, mientras que a Aristóteles se le ubica precisamente como opositor a cualquier idea de continuidad e infinito. Lo que se quiere mostrar aquí es que, al menos en el ámbito de la cognición, Aristóteles es también un sinequista. Otro punto importante del artículo es que intenta criticar y corregir la interpretación que hace Peirce del empirismo de Aristóteles al intentar erróneamente de afirmar que el filósofo griego es un intuicionista.
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