The path from the first figure to the second one, however, remains an enigmatic leap.Ĭorradini, Antonella. The Metaphysics is written from the standpoint of an investigative thinker who admits her puzzlement before a question that will forever remain open and imagines another philosopher who has achieved a god-like insight into the first principles of all things. This situation results in a fundamental ambiguity in the figure of the philosopher. Aristotle cannot prove what is beyond proof. This paper focuses on Aristotle’s discussion of PNC in Metaphysics Gamma and argues that the argument operates at three different levels: ontological, doxastic, and semantic through the invocation of three philosophical personae: the first one (the philosopher) can only state what is otherwise unprovable, the second one (a geometer) can only confirm that we should trust PNC, the third one (a sophistical opponent) denies PNC and must be silenced. Aristotle, Principle of non-contradiction, Refutation, Metaphysics Abstract
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