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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableBrochardБЂ™s work: I first encountered the mention of BrochardБЂ™s work (1888) in NietzscheБЂ™s Ecce Homo, in a comment where he also describes the skeptics as straight talkers. БЂњAn excellent study by Victor Brochard, Les sceptiques grecs, in which my Laertiana are also employed. The skeptics! the only honourable type among the two and five fold ambiguous philosopher crowd!БЂ«More trivia: Brochard taught Proust (see Kristeva, 1998). Brochard seems to have understood PopperБЂ™s problem (a few decades before PopperБЂ™s birth). He presents the views of the negative empiricism of Menodotus of Nico-media in similar terms to what we would call today БЂњPopperianБЂ«empiricism. I wonder if Popper knew anything about Menodotus. He does not seem to quote him anywhere. Brochard published his doctoral thesis, De lБЂ™erreur, in 1878 at the University of Paris, on the subject of errorБЂ”wonderfully modern. Epilogism: we know very little about Menodotus except for attacks on his beliefs by his detractor Galen in the extant Latin version of the Outline of Empiricism (Subfigura-tio empirica), hard to translate: Memoriamet sensum etvocans epilogismum hoc tertium, multotiens autemet prпєtermemoriam nihil aliud ponens quam epilogismum. (In addition to perception and recollection, the third method is epilogism sensum, as the practitioner has, besides memory, nothing other than epilogism senses; PerilliБЂ™s correction. But there is hope ...» |
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