The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy

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Артур Шопенгауэр. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy

THE ART OF CONTROVERSY

PRELIMINARY: LOGIC AND DIALECTIC

THE BASIS OF ALL DIALECTIC

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ON THE COMPARATIVE PLACE OF INTEREST AND BEAUTY IN WORKS OF ART

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

ON THE WISDOM OF LIFE: APHORISMS

GENIUS AND VIRTUE

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By the ancients, Logic and Dialectic were used as synonymous terms; although [Greek: logizesthai], "to think over, to consider, to calculate," and [Greek: dialegesthai], "to converse," are two very different things.

The name Dialectic was, as we are informed by Diogenes Laertius, first used by Plato; and in the Phaedrus, Sophist, Republic, bk. vii., and elsewhere, we find that by Dialectic he means the regular employment of the reason, and skill in the practice of it. Aristotle also uses the word in this sense; but, according to Laurentius Valla, he was the first to use Logic too in a similar way.1 Dialectic, therefore, seems to be an older word than Logic. Cicero and Quintilian use the words in the same general signification.2

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It may be noted here that synonyms are two words for the same conception; homonyms, two conceptions which are covered by the same word. (See Aristotle, Topica, bk. i., c. 13.) "Deep," "cutting," "high," used at one moment of bodies at another of tones, are homonyms; "honourable" and "honest" are synonyms.

This is a trick which may be regarded as identical with the sophism ex homonymia; although, if the sophism is obvious, it will deceive no one.

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