title: Can Aristotle solve Meno’s paradox in the case of search for a species?
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metadata.value: Berestov, Igor V.
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metadata.value: 2017-12-17T11:12:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-12-17T11:12:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.value: Berestov I. V. Can Aristotle solve Meno’s paradox in the case of search for a species? Vestnik SPbSU. Philosophy and Conflict studies, 2017, vol. 33, issue 4, pp. 446–455.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu17.2017.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8775
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is devoted to analyzing the possibility for Aristotle to solve the version of Meno’s Paradox
  that threatens his project of building scientific knowledge. The author has shown that in order to
  implement the project one must to provide the possibility of search for a species, which is previously
  known to fall under a given genus. As he has established, the analyzing species version of Meno’s
  Paradox differs from the version Aristotle discusses in Analitica Posteriora, I, 1. As the author shows,
  it is quite natural to treat species in the species version as abstract objects in the sense of E. Zalta’s
  theory of abstract objects. He argues that the holistic approach to the object of knowledge, probably
  supported by Plato and Speusippus, makes it impossible to acquire a step-by-step knowledge about the
  species that fall under the given genus.
  However, as the author shows, Aristotle has no reason to support a holistic approach. Nevertheless,
  the article demonstrates that the search for species as abstract objects faces other difficulties. First,
  it is meaningless to search for such an abstract object that encodes a generic property: it already exists
  exactly as described. Secondly, any abstract object encoding any properties will satisfy the search condition
  if the properties encoded by it are supplemented with the search condition. Such non-selectivity
  of the finding, again, makes all the process of searching meaningless. Therefore, the author сomes to the conclusion that Meno’s Paradox cannot be considered as conclusively resolved by Aristotle.
  Refs. 20.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 33; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Meno’s Paradox
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Posterior Analytics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: genus and species
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: classification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: eidos
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: episteme
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Speusippus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: holism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intentional acts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abstract objects
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: E. Zalta
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: objectual attitudes
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Can Aristotle solve Meno’s paradox in the case of search for a species?
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metadata.value: Article
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