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Author Whitaker, C. W. A

Title Aristotle's De interpretatione : contradiction and dialectic / C.W.A. Whitaker
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 235 pages)
Series Oxford Aristotle studies
Oxford Aristotle studies.
Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Title -- 2. Chapter 1: Significant Utterances -- 1. Words, Thoughts, and Things -- 2. Truth and Falsehood -- 3. Chapters 2-3: The Name and Verb -- 1. The Structure of Chapters 2 and 3 -- 2. Simple and Compound Words -- 3. Human Speech and Inarticulate Utterances -- 4. The Role of Names and Verbs in the Assertion -- 5. Indefinite Names and Verbs -- 6. Inflexions of Names and Verbs -- 4. Chapter 4: Phrases and Assertions -- 5. Chapter 5: Simple and Compound Assertions -- 6. Chapter 6: Contradictory Pairs
7. Chapter 7: The First Exception to RCP -- Singular and Universal Assertions -- 8. Chapter 8: The Second Exception to RCP -- Hidden Complex Assertions -- 1. Two Assertions Hidden in One -- 2. Unanswerable Questions: The Dialectical Background -- 9. Chapter 9: The Third Exception to RCP -- Future Singular Assertions -- 1. The Argument for Fatalism -- 2. Aristotle's Solution and its Bearing on Dialectic -- 3. The Scholarly Debate -- 10. Chapter 10: Three Types of Assertions -- 1. The Composition of Assertions -- 2. The First Type of Assertions: ""Man is""
3. The Second Type of Assertions: ""Man is Just"" -- 4. The Third Type of Assertions: ""Man Walks"" -- 5. Inferences, Negations, and Word Order -- 11. Chapter 11: Sophistic Puzzles concerning Simple and Complex Assertions -- 12. Chapter 12: Modal Assertions -- 13. Chapter 13: More on Modal Assertions -- 14. Chapter 14: Contrary Beliefs -- 15. Conclusion -- Appendix I. The Principle of Contradiction in Metaphysics Gamma -- 1. First Principles -- 2. The Refutation Proof -- 3. The Definiteness of Signification -- 4. The Refutation Completed -- Appendix II. The Substitution of Phrases for Words
Appendix III. Signification and Definition -- 1. The Problem of Definition -- 2. Aristotle's Solution -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary Whitaker presents a systematic study of one of Aristotle's central works, using a detailed chapter by chapter analysis to offer a radical new view of its aims, structure and place in Aristotle's system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aristotle. De interpretatione.
SUBJECT De interpretatione (Aristotle) fast
Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient
Form Electronic book
LC no. 96020839
ISBN 9780191598654
0191598658
9780191519048
0191519049
1281980900
9781281980908
9786611980900
6611980903