Dear George, What I read in Martin's email is that Bekker numbers are examples of identifiers for propositional content, not propositional objects themselves.
Which, it seems to me, is not so far from your thoughts :-) Ciao, A. > Il giorno 10 gen 2024, alle ore 07:30, George Bruseker via Crm-sig > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Dear Martin, > > As a scholar of ancient philosophy, I do love Bekker numbers, but I am > curious why they would be an example of propositional object. They are a > reference to a particular chunk of text in the original Greek as setup in the > Bekker edition. As such, I think as a scholar using ancient texts, I use it > to locate the original Information Object upon which an interpretation > (formulation of the proposition(s) that we think thinker X was making) is > based. The exact propositional content of that information object is usually > the subject of debate rather than the object of reference. Did Aristotle mean > X or Y in passage 99a of the Posterior Analytics, is the usual topic of > conversation. If we knew the exact propositional content, we'd be golden, but > usually that is the very topic we want to endlessly swirl around and the > Bekker number is the pointer for people who can read ancient Greek in order > to be able to find the original passage, read it, translate it and cogitate > on what was really meant there (the propositions encoded). > > But perhaps you have another use in mind? > > Best, > > George > > On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 7:25 PM Martin Doerr via Crm-sig <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I suggest to create an example using Bekker numbers. They constitute >> excellent examples of identifiers for propositional content. >> >> See https://guides.library.duq.edu/c.php?g=1030408&p=7468217 >> -- >> ------------------------------------ >> Dr. Martin Doerr >> >> Honorary Head of the >> >> Center for Cultural Informatics >> >> Information Systems Laboratory >> Institute of Computer Science >> Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) >> >> N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, >> GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece >> >> Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl >> _______________________________________________ >> Crm-sig mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
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