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8 - Epistemology and Openness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2024

Giulio Maspero
Giulio Maspero
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Pontifical Institute of the Holy Cross, Rome
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The final chapter shows how this novelty at the level of theory of knowledge resolves an aporia in Greek metaphysical thought at the epistemological level. Science, in fact, was considered relational by Aristotle, whereas the first principle and thought itself could not be so. The Trinitarian revelation thus allowed the Cappadocians, in their response to Eunomius, to anticipate some of the results of modern logic, in particular Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, by showing that epistemology can only be effective when it is open.

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The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics
Relational Being
 , pp. 186 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Epistemology and Openness
  • Giulio Maspero, Pontifical Institute of the Holy Cross, Rome
  • Book: The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009412056.008
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  • Epistemology and Openness
  • Giulio Maspero, Pontifical Institute of the Holy Cross, Rome
  • Book: The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009412056.008
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  • Epistemology and Openness
  • Giulio Maspero, Pontifical Institute of the Holy Cross, Rome
  • Book: The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics
  • Online publication: 11 January 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009412056.008
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