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    Blind-Spots in Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Perceptual Mean.Roberto Grasso - 2020 - Apeiron 53 (3):257-284.
    This paper aims to identify several interpretive problems posed by the final part ofDAII.11 (423b27–424 a10), where Aristotle intertwines the thesis that a sense is like a ‘mean’ and an explanation for the existence of a ‘blind spot’ related to the sense of touch, adding the further contention that we are capable of discriminating because the mean ‘becomes the other opposite’ in relation to the perceptible property being perceived. To solve those problems, the paper explores a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s (...)
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    Μεσοτησ in Plato's Laws 746A6–7.Roberto Grasso - 2019 - Classical Quarterly 69 (1):443-446.
    In the fifth book of Plato'sLaws(745e7–746a8), the Athenian stranger concedes that some requirements posed in the description of the ideal city might be unrealistically demanding. The passage quotes the due limits fixed with regard to wealth and the regulations about the number of children and the size of the family, as well as the rules to be observed in the allocation of houses in the city and in the countryside. The latter requirement is recalled at 746a6–7 (ἔτι δὲ χώρας τε (...)
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    L'anima. Aristotle, Marcello Zanatta & Roberto Grasso - 2006 - Roma: Aracne. Edited by Marcello Zanatta & Roberto Grasso.
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    Aristotle’s Theory of perception.Roberto Grasso - 2012 - Dissertation,
    In this work I reconstruct the physical and mental descriptions of perception in Aristotle. I propose to consider the thesis that αἴσθησις is a μεσότης (DA II 11) as a description of the physiological aspect of perception, meaning that perceiving is a physical act by which the sensory apparatus homeostatically counterbalances, and thence measures, the incoming affection produced by external perceptible objects. The proposal is based on a revision of the semantics of the word mesotês in Plato, Aristotle and later (...)
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    De Anima II.12.R. Grasso - 2013 - Philosophical Inquiry 37 (1-2):23-44.
    A blatant contradiction seems to characterize the first part of DA II 12: 424a24-25 entails that possession of the power to ‘receive forms without the matter’ is sufficient for being a sense organ, while the ‘wax simile’ supposedly preceding it (424a19-23) attributes the same power to both senses and wax blocks. To solve the contradiction, I contend that Aristotle does not in fact endorse the described ‘wax simile’. He offers, instead, a ‘signature simile’ between the forms received by senses and (...)
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    Μεσότης in Plato and Aristotle.Roberto Grasso - 2019 - Dissertatio 48:71-95.
    I propose a revision of the received lexicography of μεσότης with regard to Plato’s and Aristotle’s use of the word. In their works, μεσότης never indicates something that merely ‘lies in the middle’, and rather hints at what establishes a reason-grounded, ἀναλογία-like relationship between two extremes. Particularly controversial occurrences of the word μεσότης are connected to the introduction of Aristotle’s ethical and perceptual doctrines of the mean, in Nicomachean Ethics II and De Anima II.12. In this regard, I shall briefly (...)
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    La forma del corpo vivente: studio sul De anima di Aristotele.Roberto Grasso - 2005 - Milano: UNICOPLI. Edited by Marcello Zanatta.
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    Perceiving That We See and Hear in Aristotle’s De Anima III 2.Roberto Grasso - 2019 - Journal of Ancient Philosophy 13 (1):120-146.
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