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Topic: Endoxa

	Aristotle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aristotle valued knowledge gained from the senses and in modern terms would be classed among the modern empiricists (see materialism and empiricism).
		He also achieved a "grounding" of dialectic in the Topics by allowing interlocutors to begin from commonly held beliefs (Endoxa); his goal being non-contradiction rather than Truth.
		He set the stage for what would eventually develop into the empirical scientific method some two millennia later.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aristotle (5143 words)

	Leiter Reports: A Group Blog: Experimental Philosophy Defended (Leiter)
		The endoxa are useful merely as starting points for philosophical reflection.
		In so far as the views of lay people might make up some theory of moral responsibility it is not clear why whether or not such and such an "intuitive" view is actually held by lay folk matter if what we are looking for is a true theory.
		Velleman (as usual) has hit the nail on the head: considering endoxa is only the first step in a philosophical investigation.
	leiterreports.typepad.com /blog/2006/03/experimental_ph.html (10394 words)

	Aristotle's Logic
		Aristotle often uses this adjective as a substantive: ta endoxa, "accepted things", "accepted opinions".
		On one understanding, descended from the work of G. Owen and developed more fully by Jonathan Barnes and especially Terence Irwin, the endoxa are a compilation of views held by various people with some form or other of standing: "the views of fairly reflective people after some reflection", in Irwin's phrase.
		Dialectic is then simply "a method of argument from [the] common beliefs [held by these people]".
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/aristotle-logic (11035 words)

	CIOS -
		Haskins, Ekaterina V. Endoxa, epistemological optimism, and Aristotle's rhetorical project.
		Aristotle's crucial role in institutionalizing the art of rhetoric in the fourth century BCE is beyond dispute, but the significance of Aristotle's rhetorical project remains a point of lively controversy among philosophers and rhetoricians alike
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	www.cios.org /www/tocs/PHR.htm (205 words)

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