书目名称 | How Things Are | 副标题 | Studies in Predicati | 编辑 | James Bogen,James E. McGuire | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Philosophical Studies Series | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 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 | 出版日期 | Book 1985 | 关键词 | Aristotle; Plato; Plotin; history of philosophy; language | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5199-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-8799-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-5199-0Series ISSN 0921-8599 Series E-ISSN 2542-8349 | issn_series | 0921-8599 | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985 |
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