Aspects Of Aristotle S Earlier Theory Of Predication

Author : Allan T. Bäck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
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Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004321090

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Aristotle's Theory of Predication by Allan T. Bäck Pdf

This book claims that Aristotle followed an aspect theory of predication. On it statements make a basic assertion of existence that can be more or less qualified. It is claimed that the aspect theory solves many puzzles about Aristotle's philosophy and gives a new unity to his logic and metaphysics. The book considers Aristotle's views on predication relative to Greek philology, Aristotle's philosophical milieu, and the history and philosophy of predication theory. It offers new perspectives on such issues as existential import; the relation of Categories 2 & 4; the place of differentiae and propria; the predication of matter; unnatural predication; and the square of opposition. It ends by comparing Aristotle's theory with current ones.

Author : Frank A. Lewis
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521391598

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Substance and Predication in Aristotle by Frank A. Lewis Pdf

This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.This book takes up the central themes of Aristotle's metaphysical theory and the various transformations they undergo prior to their full expresson in the Metaphysics.

Author : Michael David Rohr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Predicate (Logic)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025659223

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Aspects of Aristotle's Earlier Theory of Predication by Michael David Rohr Pdf

Author : Lambertus Marie De Rijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 784 pages
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Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004123245

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Aristotle by Lambertus Marie De Rijk Pdf

This study offers a re-interpretation of basic elements of Aristotle's semantics and metaphysics (particularly his sublunar ontology) on the basis of a meticulous reconstruction of his semantics. By eliminating anachronistic conceptions commonly ascribed to him, many shortcomings or obscurities he is accused of will disappear.

Author : Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 243 pages
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Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691221595

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The Discovery of Things by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann Pdf

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 : J. Bogen,J.E. McGuire
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 423 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400951990

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How Things Are by J. Bogen,J.E. McGuire Pdf

One of the earliest and most influential treatises on the subject of this volume is Aristotle's Categories. Aristotle's title is a form of the Greek verb for speaking against or submitting an accusation in a legal proceeding. By the time of Aristotle, it also meant: to signify or to predicate. Surprisingly, the "predicates" Aristotle talks about include not only bits of language, but also such nonlinguistic items as the color white in a body and the knowledge of grammar in a man's soul. (Categories I/ii) Equally surprising are such details as Aristotle's use of the terms 'homonymy' and 'synonymy' in connection with things talked about rather than words used to talk about them. Judging from the evidence in the Organon, the Metaphysics, and elsewhere, Aristotle was both aware of and able to mark the distinction between using and men tioning words; and so we must conclude that in the Categories, he was not greatly concerned with it. For our purposes, however, it is best to treat the term 'predication' as if it were ambiguous and introduce some jargon to disambiguate it. Code, Modrak, and other authors of the essays which follow use the terms 'linguistic predication' and 'metaphysical predication' for this.

Author : Paul Slomkowski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
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Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320994

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Aristotle's Topics by Paul Slomkowski Pdf

This work deals with Aristotle's Topics, a textbook on how to argue successfully in a debate organised in a certain way. The origins of the three branches of logic can be found here: logic of propositions, of predicates and of relations. Having dealt with the structure of the dialectical debates and the theory of the predicables, the central notion of the topos is analysed. Topoi are principles of arguments designed to help a disputant refute his opponent and function as hypotheses in hypothetical syllogisms, the main form of argument in the Topics. Traces of the crystallization of their theory can be found in the Topics and Analytics. The author analyses a selection of topoi including those according to which categorical and relational syllogisms are constructed.

Author : L.M. de Rijk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004321144

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Aristotle: Semantics and Ontology by L.M. de Rijk Pdf

This study intends to show that the ascription of many shortcomings or obscurities to Aristotle is due to the persistent misinterpetation of key notions in his works, including anachronistic perceptions of statement making. In the first volume Aristotle's semantics is culled from the Organon. The second volume presents Aristotle's ontology of the sublunar world, and pays special attention to his strategy of argument in light of his semantic views. The reconstruction of the semantic models that come forward as genuinely Aristotelian can give a new impetus to the study of Aristotelian philosophic and semantic thought.

Author : Dominic J. O'Meara
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813230962

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Studies in Aristotle by Dominic J. O'Meara Pdf

Presents studies which give some idea of the variety of philosophical perspectives which Aristotle held, and to provide analysis needed in order to reach a better understanding of a difficult thinker.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1624 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498538

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2017
Category : Predicate (Logic).
ISBN : 3631669208

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Philosophy and Logic of Predication by Piotr Stalmaszczyk Pdf

This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and Meinongian predication. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Aristotle and Frege, as well as the division of classes into a hierarchy of orders. They reanalyze the traditional notions, and offer new insights into predication theory. This book contributes to contemporary debates on predication and predicates in the philosophy of language.

Author : Jiyuan Yu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401000550

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The Structure of Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics by Jiyuan Yu Pdf

This book develops a new interpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics. By exploring the significance of the long ignored distinction between being with regard to categories and being with regard to potentiality and actuality, the author presents that Aristotle's science of being has two distinct aspects: an investigation of the basic constituents of reality in terms of categories, predication, and definition, and an investigation which deals with change, process, and order of the world.

Author : Pamela Michelle Hood
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761830073

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Aristotle on the Category of Relation by Pamela Michelle Hood Pdf

In Aristotle on the Category of Relation, Pamela Hood challenges the view that Aristotle's conception of relation is so divergent from our own that it does not count as a theory of relation at all. This book presents compelling evidence that Aristotle's theory of relation is more robust than originally suspected.

Author : Nathanael Stein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Causation
ISBN : 9780197660867

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Causality and Causal Explanation in Aristotle by Nathanael Stein Pdf

Aristotle's writings about causality and its relation to natural science are at the heart of his philosophical project, and at the origin of a 2,000-year history of inquiry into these topics. Yet for all the work done on various aspects of his thought, there has been no full-length philosophical study of his theory of causality, and some basic questions about it remain under-examined. For example, it is unclear, from what he and his commentators have said, (a) how Aristotle answers the main philosophical questions about causality to which he thinks his predecessors' answers are flawed, and (b) how his answers bear on the main questions we confront in thinking about causality in general, such that those answers could be usefully critiqued, developed, and compared with others. Nathanael Stein's book addresses these two questions. It is not a survey of Aristotle's claims, but rather focuses on a set of key conceptual, metaphysical, and epistemological questions that are important both for understanding Aristotle's responses to his predecessors and for understanding causality in general. The book thus provides the kind of philosophical engagement with Aristotle that has proven so fruitful in other domains, such as ethics and metaphysics. It also aims to contribute to a more accurate understanding of the differences between ancient and modern approaches to the natural world. This book is meant for anyone interested in philosophical theories of causation and explanation and their history, as well as those who have read Aristotle's thoughts on the topic of causality and come away wondering what it all really adds up to, and how we might engage with it.

Author : Paul Thom,Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004235991

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Robert Kilwardby by Paul Thom,Henrik Lagerlund Pdf

Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Kilwardby OP (c. 1215-1279) was a very important and influential thinker in his time, but he has not received the scholarly attention he deserves. In this book we present the first study of all of his philosophical works from logic and grammar to metaphysics and ethics. It contains a substantial introduction about Kilwardby's life and work as well as a comprehensive bibliography. The articles are all newly written by the foremost experts on Kilwardby today. The book should be of interest to any one studying medieval philosophy but foremost for scholars of thirteenth century philosophy. Contributors include Henrik Lagerlund, Paul Thom, Anthony Celano, Alessandro D. Conti, Amos Corbini, Silvia Donati, C.H. Kneepkens, Alfonso Maierù, José Filipe Silva and Cecilia Trifogli.