Epagogue

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The epagogue (from ancient Greek ἐπαγωγή epagōgē means bringing about ')

  1. with Aristotle an induction .
  2. in the form of epagogisch ( Greek epagogos: actually "bringing about") leading in logic from the individual to the general
  3. as epagogical proof for Friedrich Kirchner the opposite of the apagogue . In logic, this is understood as a proof procedure that shows the truth of a proposition by the fact that what follows from the proposition is true. So it is closed to the bottom of the consequences. Since this judgment is based on uncertainty, the truth of the judgment is associated with a probability.

history

Aristotle provides the first definition in the topical : “The epagogue is the ascent from the particular to the general” (105a, II, 11-14). The following example is given: "If the best helmsman is who understands his cause, and the same applies to the charioteer, then the best of all is also he who understands his respective cause." (Ibid. 105a, 14ff)

In more recent times, Günther Buck has renewed the concept of the epagogé and made it fruitful for didactics in a critical examination of Aristotle, Husserl and Hegel. It is not about an ascent to the general, rather the vague general is always anticipated and looked at. Buck writes: "The epagogue is nothing else than the explication, the elaboration of what is inherently earlier in what is for us earlier, what is actually known contained in knowing what is known to us, which we have just not yet taken explicitly of."

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag Verlag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965.
  2. ^ F. Kirchner: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms.
  3. ^ Rudolf Eisler: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms. 1904, accessed February 8, 2011 .
  4. ^ Günther Buck: "Learning and experience - Epagogik: on the concept of didactic induction" 3rd extended edition, Wiss.Buchges. Darmstadt, 1989.
  5. ^ Günther Buck: Learning and experience - Epagogik. On the concept of didactic induction . 3rd, expanded edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, p. 37 .