Probabilities, hypotheticals, and counterfactuals in ancient Greek thought / (Record no. 2486)
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| fixed length control field | 01476cam a2200181 i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107050495 (hardback) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 1107050499 (hardback) |
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| Classification number | 180 |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Probabilities, hypotheticals, and counterfactuals in ancient Greek thought / |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 294 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: eikos in ancient Greek thought -- Eikos arguments in Athenian forensic oratory / Michael Gagarin -- Eikos in Plato's Phaedrus / Jenny Bryan -- Aristotle on the value of "probability," persuasiveness, and verisimilitude in rhetorical argument / James Allen -- "Likely stories" and the political art in Plato's Laws / Ryan K. Balot -- Open and speak your mind: citizen agency, the likelihood of truth, and democratic knowledge in archaic and classical Greece / Vincent Farenga -- Counterfactual history and Thucydides / Robert Tordoff -- Homer's Achaean wall and the hypothetical past / Karen Bassi -- Play of the improbable: Euripides' unlikely Helen / Victoria Wohl -- Revision in Greek literary papyri / Sean Gurd -- Likeness and likelihood in classical Greek art / Verity Platt -- "Why doesn't my baby look like me?" Likeness and likelihood in ancient theories of reproduction / Daryn Lehoux -- Galen on the chances of life / Brooke Holmes -- Afterword / Catherine Gallagher |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Philosophy, Ancient |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Reasoning |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Probabilities |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Logic, Ancient |
| ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wohl, Victoria, |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/01/2023 | B185.P76 2014 | 0159630 | Books |
| Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | 02/01/2023 | B185.P76 2014 | 0159631 | Books |