Синтетично-диеретичната аргументативна грешка: логика и логос в Аристотеловите трактати Реторика и за Софистическите опровержения
The Fallacy of Synthesis and Diairesis: Towards Logic and Logos in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Sophistical Refutations

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on the so-called ‘fallacy of combination and division’ or ‘synthetic-dieretic fallacy,’ as discussed by Aristotle in his treatises‘Rhetoric’ and ‘On Sophistical Refutations.’ Despite significant scholarly interestin these manipulative maneuvers over the last two decades, there is no agreementregarding the notable discrepancies observed in the two works regarding defini-tions and the examples the philosopher employs to illustrate them. The thesis to bedefended is that these are not two entirely different phenomena but rather two dis-tinct approaches applied by Aristotle to refute the paradoxes used in the Megarianschool of philosophy to seemingly disprove the concept of the static (εἶναι) natureof being and ‘prove’ their idea of an eternally changing dynamic world (γίγνεσθαι).A new approach will be proposed towards the specific argumentative fallacies and linguistic means underlying the logic-linguistic phenomena described by Aristotle.

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