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Boethius on mind, grammar, and logic : a study of Boethius' Commentaries on Peri hermeneias /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Suto, Taki (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Philosophia antiqua ; v. 127.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.