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Author Suto, Taki, author

Title Boethius on mind, grammar, and logic : a study of Boethius' Commentaries on Peri hermeneias / by Taki Suto
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Philosophia antiqua, 0079-1687 ; v. 127
Philosophia antiqua ; v. 127.
Contents Note continued: 4.2. Ordering of Nature (Ordinatio Naturae) -- 4.3. Signification and Causation -- 4.4. The Order for a Speaker and a Listener -- 5. Formations of Mental Speech and Spoken Speech -- 6. Conclusion -- pt. TWO BOETHIUS ON LOGIC AND GRAMMAR -- IV. Nouns, Verbs, and Conjunctions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Parts of Speech -- 2.1. The Historical Background: From Plato to Donatus -- 2.2. Boethius' Division -- 2.3. Boethius' Delineation of Logic vs. Grammar -- 3. The Noun and the Verb -- 3.1. The Common Conditions for the Noun and the Verb -- 3.2. The Noun-Verb Distinction -- 3.3. Indefinite Nouns and Verbs and Cases of Nouns and Verbs -- 3.4. Different Noun-Verb Categories -- 4. The Conjunction -- 5. Conclusion -- V. The Varieties of Speech -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Imperfect vs. Perfect -- 3. Declarative vs. Other Four Species -- 4. Distinctions for Explaining the Unity of Propositions: An Overview -- 5. Single vs. Multiple -- 5.1. Single Affirmations and Negations
Note continued: 5.2. Single Conditional Propositions -- 6. Simple vs. Composite -- 6.1.̀Term' (Terminus) -- 6.2.̀Diction' (Dictio) -- 6.3. The Simple Proposition -- 7. The Combined Distinctions -- 8. Single by Nature vs. Single by Stipulation -- 9. Conclusion -- VI. The Verb ̀To Be' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. De Rijk's Claim -- 3.̀Is' in Boethius' Monographs on Logic -- 4.̀Is' in Boethius' Exposition of Chapter 10 (̀Tertium Adiacens') -- 5. Approaches to ̀Is' (est) in Peri hermeneias, Chapter 3 -- 5.1. Aristotle's Text and Boethius' Translation -- 5.2. Boethius' Exposition -- 5.3. Ammonius' Exposition -- 5.4. Differences between Boethius and Ammonius -- 6. Conclusion -- VII. General Conclusions -- 1. Some Significant Features of Boethius' Semantics and Logic -- 2. Boethius on Mind, Grammar, and Logic -- 3. Boethius on Aristotle, the Stoics, and Neoplatonists -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Sources and Selected Translations -- 1.1. Boethius' Original Works -- 1.2. Boethius' Latin Translations
Note continued: 1.3. Works of Other Ancient and Medieval Thinkers -- 2. Secondary and Modern Literatures -- 3. Dictionaries, Fragments or Excerpt Collections and Reference Books -- 4. Electronic Databases
Summary Boethius, the Roman philosopher, was executed for treason and pilloried by modern scholars for misinterpreting Aristotle to the West. This book examines his semantics and logic, attempting to clear his name and lend him new credence
Notes Revised and expanded version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Saint Louis University, 2008), originally presented under the title: Boethius on language, mind, and reality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-267) and indexes
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Subject Boethius, -524. Commentarii in librum Aristotelis Peri hermeneias.
Aristotle. De interpretatione.
SUBJECT Commentarii in librum Aristotelis Peri hermeneias (Boethius) fast
De interpretatione (Aristotle) fast
Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Logic, Ancient.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Logic, Ancient
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004216044
9004216049