Sôzein ta phainomena: Some semantic considerations

István M. Bodnár*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Saving the appearances (sôzein ta phainomena) often features as a programmatic description of the aim and objective of ancient astronomical theory. The paper, after an expository section, discusses some earlier proposals for what such a programme presupposes. After this, through a survey of the usage in Plato and Aristotle of some key terms-among them the verb sôzein-describing the relationship of an account to what it is an account of, submits that the phrase in this semantic framework could express the crucial property of an account that it is faithful to the phenomena, and it does not overrule or discard them.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)269-281
Number of pages13
JournalCroatian Journal of Philosophy
Volume12
Issue number35
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Aristotle
  • Astronomy
  • Callipus
  • Eudemus
  • Eudoxus
  • Homocentric
  • Phenomena
  • Planetary theory
  • Plato
  • Spheres

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