Paradoxes in the Argumentation of the Comic Double and Classemic Contradiction

In the comedies of errors, and more precisely in the comedies of double, in which two identities become confused, the characters get into paradoxical situations reigned by the principle of contradiction. The classemic relationships that are based on the criterion of subjectivity are broken due to th...

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Published in:Argumentation 2003, Vol.17 (1), p.99-111
Main Author: García-hernández, Benjamín
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient history
Cognition & reasoning
Logic
Mythology
Philosophy
Rhetoric
Sociology
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Summary:In the comedies of errors, and more precisely in the comedies of double, in which two identities become confused, the characters get into paradoxical situations reigned by the principle of contradiction. The classemic relationships that are based on the criterion of subjectivity are broken due to the intervention of the character appearing as the double, for the doubled and the double can appear as one subject or as two. In fact, in the added double one + one equals one (1 + 1 = 1; Sosia + Mercury = Sosia) and in the split double one equals one + one (1 = 1 + 1; Philocomasium = Philocomasium + Dicea). In the modal oppositions of the alternative class (present absent, to be not to be) and in the aspectual oppositions of the sequential class (to arrive - to be in) the intrasubjective nature is cancelled; in the diathetic or complementary oppositions (to give .- to receive) the intersubjective relationship gets broken. Thus, it turns out that, due to the action of the double, a character can be present and absent at the same time, be and not be the same, be in a place before arriving there or have received what another has not yet given him.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0920-427X
1572-8374
DOI:10.1023/A:1022904025811