Paper's abstract

Jean-Louis Gardies, What Reason owes to Trial
The Athenian democracy elaborated a very peculiar form of trial, which, in its turn, shaped the style of argumentation, specially in mathematical demonstrations. The process of reason that Athens bequeathed upon us was therefore initially build into an imitation of the judicial trial.

Key Words : trial, Greece, reason
t. 39, 1994 : p. 39-45

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