Aristotle On Homonymy

Author : Julie K. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107321123
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Homonymy written by Julie K. Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie K. Ward examines Aristotle's thought regarding how language informs our views of what is real. First she places Aristotle's theory in its historical and philosophical contexts in relation to Plato and Speusippus. Ward then explores Aristotle's theory of language as it is deployed in several works, including Ethics, Topics, Physics, and Metaphysics, so as to consider its relation to dialectical practice and scientific explanation as Aristotle conceived it.

Author : Christopher Shields
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253074
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order in Multiplicity written by Christopher Shields and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Shields investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept. Then, in a series of case-studies, Shields examines in detail some of Aristotle's principal applications of homonymy - to the body, sameness and oneness, life, goodness, and being. Shields's aim is not only to give a fuller understanding of Aristotle's methodology and to illuminate his specific doctrines in a variety of areas, but to show that this methodology remains fruitful today.

Author : Christopher John Shields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order in Multiplicity written by Christopher John Shields and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept.

Author : Christopher John Shields
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Order in Multiplicity written by Christopher John Shields and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691221596
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of Things written by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naïve, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a revolutionary metaphysical picture, one Aristotle arrives at by (implicitly) criticizing Plato and Plato's strange counterparts, the "Late-Learners" of the Sophist. As Mann shows, the Categories reflects Aristotle's discovery that ordinary items are things (objects with properties). Put most starkly, Mann contends that there were no things before Aristotle. The author's argument consists of two main elements. First, a careful investigation of Plato which aims to make sense of the odd-sounding suggestion that things do not show up as things in his ontology. Secondly, an exposition of the theoretical apparatus Aristotle introduces in the Categories--an exposition which shows how Plato's and the Late-Learners' metaphysical pictures cannot help but seem inadequate in light of that apparatus. In doing so, Mann reveals that Aristotle's conception of things--now so engrained in Western thought as to seem a natural expression of common sense--was really a hard-won philosophical achievement. Clear, subtle, and rigorously argued, The Discovery of Things will reshape our understanding of some of Aristotle's--and Plato's--most basic ideas.

Author : Ömer Aygün
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810134003
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Included written by Ömer Aygün and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Included is the first comprehensive account of the Ancient Greek word logos in Aristotelian philosophy. Logos means many things in the Aristotelian corpus: essential formula, proportion, reason, and language. Surveying these meanings in Aristotle’s logic, physics, and ethics, Ömer Aygün persuasively demonstrates that these divers meanings of logos all refer to a basic sense of “gathering” or “inclusiveness.” In this sense, logos functions as a counterpart to a formal version of the principles of non-contradiction and of the excluded middle in his corpus. Aygün thus shifts Aristotle’s traditional image from that of the father of formal logic, classificatory thinking, and exclusion to a more nuanced image of him as a thinker of inclusion. The Middle Included also explores human language in Aristotelian philosophy. After an account of acoustic phenomena and animal communication, Aygün argues that human language for Aristotle is the ability to understand and relay both first-hand experiences and non-first-hand experiences. This definition is key to understanding many core human experiences such as science, history, news media, education, sophistry, and indeed philosophy itself. Logos is thus never associated with any other animal nor with anything divine—it remains strictly and rigorously secular, humane, and yet full of the wonder.

Author : Theodore Scaltsas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801476358
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics written by Theodore Scaltsas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philosophy to bear on a classic problem in metaphysics that stems from Aristotle's theory of substance. Scaltsas provides an analysis of the enigmatic notions of potentiality and actuality, which he uses to explain Aristotle's substantial holism by showing how the concrete and the abstract parts of a substance form a dynamic, diachronic whole.

Author : Gail Fine
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191519510
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Ideas written by Gail Fine and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peri ideon (On Ideas) is the only work in which Aristotle systematically sets out and criticizes arguments for the existence of Platonic forms. Gail Fine presents the first full-length treatment in English of this important but neglected work . She asks how, and how well, and why and with what justification he favours an alternative metaphysical scheme. She also examines the significance of the Peri ideon for some central questions about Plato's theory of forms - whether, for example, there are forms corresponding to every property or only to some, then to which ones; whether forms are universals, particulars, or both; and whether they are meanings, properties, or both. In addition to discussing the Peri ideon and its sources in Plato's dialogues, Fine also provides a general discussion of Plato's theory of forms, and of our evidence about the date, scope, and aims of the Peri ideon. While she pays careful attention to the details of the text, she also relates the issues to current philosophical concerns. The book will be valuable for anyone interested in metaphysics ancient or modern.

Author : Terence Irwin
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 019151991X
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's First Principles written by Terence Irwin and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-01-12 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's reliance on dialectic as a method of philosophy appears to conflict with his metaphysical realist view of his conclusions. This book explores Aristotle's philosophical method and the merits of his conclusions, and shows how he defends dialectic against the objection that it cannot justify a metaphysical realist's claims. The author does not presuppose extensive previous acquaintance with Aristotle. Greek texts are translated, and Greek words transliterated.

Author : Victor Caston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192688340
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 61 written by Victor Caston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "'Have you seen the latest OSAP?' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophists, on Stoics, Epicureans, or Sceptics, on Roman philosophers or Greek Neoplatonists, you are liable to find OSAP articles now dominant in the bibliography of much serious published work in your particular subject: not safe to miss." - Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University "OSAP was founded to provide a place for long pieces on major issues in ancient philosophy. In the years since, it has fulfilled this role with great success, over and over again publishing groundbreaking papers on what seemed to be familiar topics and others surveying new ground to break. It represents brilliantly the vigour-and the increasingly broad scope-of scholarship in ancient philosophy, and shows us all how the subject should flourish." - M.M. McCabe, King's College London