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Headword: *ai)/thsis
Adler number: alphaiota,365
Translated headword: questioning
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
In Aristotle 'questioning' is the derivation of the opposite in arguments, the eliciting of something from a respondent and afterwards trying to elicit that which is contrary to it from him, and by this method showing him the contradiction in his responses.[1]
Greek Original:
*ai)/thsis: para\ *)aristote/lei ai)/thsi/s e)sti tou= e)nanti/ou h( e)n lo/gois paragwgh/, to\ lamba/nein ti para\ tou= a)pokrinome/nou kai\ meta\ tau=ta peira=sqai to\ a)ntikei/menon au)tw=| par' au)tou= lamba/nein kai\ dia\ tou/tou tou= tro/pou dei=cai th\n e)nantiologi/an tw=n a)pokri/sewn.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
[1] Alexander of Aphrodisias, Commentaries on Aristotle's Topica 579.10-13.
Keywords: definition; philosophy; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2003@19:23:59.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note) on 12 February 2003@06:19:11.
David Whitehead (another note) on 17 May 2012@07:03:34.
David Whitehead (coding; another keyword) on 1 December 2015@05:52:59.
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