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Anonymus Cantabrigiensis. Commentarium in Sophisticos elenchos Aristotelis, by Sten Ebbesen (ed.)

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PROLEGOMENA BACKGROUND. In hindsight, it is not surprising that the exegesis of Aristotle's Sophistici elenchi developed into one of the most substantial corpus of the Latin commentary tradition. To make a long story short, in its customary capacity as the art of arts and the science of sciences, mediaeval logic was primarily concerned with discerning the true from the false in arguments as they occur in natural, ordinary speech as opposed to the more formalised parlance later logicians will resort to. It makes perfect sense then that mediaeval logicians paid special attention to everything liable to disrupt sound reasoning thus preventing us from speaking the truth. Indeed, they were second to none and better than most at exposing and elucidating arguments' flaws and shortcomings. After all, as John Buridan-faithful to a long and illustrious tradition-aptly put it, « rooting out errors » is logic's first order of business 1. As early as the 1140s, Aristotle's Sophistici elenchi provided the most fertile ground for such keen interest in fallacies ; which, in turn, explains etc. RELEVANCE. This much is uncontroversial or, at any rate, can withstand any amount of scrutiny we care to throw at it. Courtesy-first and foremost-of Sten Ebbesen, whose long-standing interest in mediaeval writings on bad arguments has turned the Byzantine and Latin aftermath of Aristotle's Sophistici elenchi into wellcharted territory-by all standards. As it happened, Anonymus Cantabrigiensis has played no small part in shaping this picture. As a matter of fact, time and again over the last forty years or so, quotes and insights from the anonymous work have kept showing up in Sten Ebbesen's editions and studies : since he first discovered the commentary in the late 1970s and brought it to the general attention, Sten Ebbesen has routinely drawn on the Anonymus as an early witness of the circulation of Aristotelian logical works and related texts, as a convenient illustration of major trends and distinctive features of the Latin literature on fallacies, as well as a sensible interpreter in his own right 2 .

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Leone Gazziero. Anonymus Cantabrigiensis. Commentarium in Sophisticos elenchos Aristotelis, by Sten Ebbesen (ed.): Book Review. 2021, pp.361-369. ⟨10.1163/15685349-05904004⟩. ⟨hal-03503029⟩
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