Gorgias' Antilogical Arguments and the Reception of the Eleatics
Résumé
In this paper, I show that the Aristotelian reception often attributes to the Eleatics, as a group or individuals, arguments that I call "antilogies", i.e. a reductio ad absurdum based on a dichotomy. I trace back this structure of reasoning to Gorgias, who in his treatise On Not-being was the first to reformulate the Eleatic arguments as antilogies. Not only did some authors, like Aristotle, borrow arguments from Gorgias to attribute them to the Eleatics, it also led to a widespread tendency to reformulate the Eleatic arguments as antilogies, even independently of Gorgias' treatise. This reveals a deep and so far unnoticed influence of Gorgias on the way the Eleatics were interpreted.
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