书目名称 | The Logic of Being | 副标题 | Historical Studies | 编辑 | Simo Knuuttila,Jaakko Hintikka | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/914/913226/913226.mp4 | 丛书名称 | Synthese Historical Library | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general concept of being and its several varieties. The most general examination of the meaning of the Greek verb ‘esti‘/‘einai‘/‘on‘ both in common usage and in the philosophical literature has been presented by Charles H. Kahn, most extensively in his 1973 book The Verb ‘Be‘ in Ancient Greek. These discussions are summarized in Kahn‘s contribution to this volume. By and large, they show that conceptual schemes by means of which philosophers have recently approached Greek thought have not been very well suited to the way the concept of being was actually used by the ancients. For one thing, being in the sense of existence played a very small role in Greek thinking according to Kahn. Even more importantly, Kahn has argued that Frege and Russell‘s thesis that verbs for being, such as ‘esti‘, are multiply ambiguous is ill suited for the purpose of appreciating the actual conceptual assumptions of the Greek thinkers. Frege and Russell claimed that a verb like ‘is‘ or‘esti‘ is ambiguous between the ‘is‘ of identity, the ‘is‘ of existence, the copulative ‘is‘, and t | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | 关键词 | Aristotle; Kant; Plato; Thomas Aquinas | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4780-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-2371-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-4780-1Series ISSN 0082-111X | issn_series | 0082-111X | copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1986 |
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