On Four Causes of the Existence of the “Platonic” and “Aristotelian” Meanings of “Virtual”
Journal: Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences
Year: 2020

The article discusses the causes for the formation of the polysemanticity of the Latin word virtus (virtue; strength, valor, masculinity) and term virtual , which was derived from virtus . The emergence of the polysemantic character of virtual became possible due to the unique semantics of the word virtus , in which there are two dominant meanings – virtue and strength . According to Ekaterina Taratuta, there are two lines of constructing the meanings of concepts based on the root vir(t) – “Plat