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    Rhetoric being the mode of knowledge most apt to moral sciences does not imply that rhetoric contributes to moral or political knowledge

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    • 1.Aristotle distinguishes episteme (scientific knowledge) from phronesis (practical wisdom), assigning rhetoric to persuasion, not cognitive justification.
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    • 2.Rhetoric operates through enthymemes and probable reasoning, which Aristotle explicitly contrasts with the demonstrative syllogisms that ground genuine scientific knowledge.
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    • 3.A discipline's instrumental aptness for communicating or examining a domain's conclusions leaves its epistemic foundations untouched and independently grounded.
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    • 1.Giles of Rome, following Aquinas, holds that each science draws on principles proper to itself, making external methods epistemically subordinate to domain-internal foundations.
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    • 2.The 'aptness' of rhetoric to moral sciences reflects the contingency and particularity of moral subject matter, not any generative role rhetoric plays in producing moral truths.
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    • 1.Moral and political knowledge is derived from the principles proper to ethics or politics, not from rhetoric
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    • 2.The aptness of a method of inquiry to a domain does not entail that the method generates the domain's foundational knowledge
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    After René Antoine Gauthier identified in the master Guillaume Arnauld the real author of the Lectura supra logicam veterem attributed to Giles of Rome (Tabarroni 1988), interest in logical works focused mainly on his Commentaries on the Sophistici Elenchi and on Posterior Analytics. In his treatment of the fallacia figurae dictionis Giles proves to be a brilliant and original representative of “modistic logic”, who bases his solutions mainly on the semantics of intentiones (Tabarroni 1991). Thi
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