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Mental Language : From Plato to William of Ockham /
This book offers a history of the idea that human thought is structured like a language, from Plato and Aristotle up to the fourteenth century when William of Ockham gave it a new importance and developed it in a systematic way.
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| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Introduction ; PART I: THE SOURCES; 1. Plato and Aristotle; The soul's dialogue with itself; The locus of logical relations; The composition of thought; 2. Logos endiathetos; A Stoic notion?; Philo and allegorical exegesis; From Plutarch to Plotinus; John Damascene and his sources; 3. Verbum in corde; The battle against Gnosis; The emergence of Latin theology; Augustine: The development of a doctrine; 4. Oratio mentalis; The case of Porphyry; The testimony of Ammonius; The commentaries of Boethius
- The passage through IslamPART II: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY CONTROVERSIES; 5. Triple Is the Word; Anselm's Augustinianism; The play of triads; Sermo in mente; 6. Act versus Idol; The Thomistic synthesis; The first criticisms; Back to the things themselves; 7. Concept and Sign; Signs in the intellect; John Duns Scotus and the question of the significate; The language of angels; 8. What Is Logic About?; Logic, composition, and truth; Deep structure and logical form; The subject of the Perihermeneias; The elements of syllogism; PART III: THE VIA MODERNA; 9. Ockham's Intervention
- The object of knowledgeThe ontology of the intelligible; The semantics of concepts; Natural signification; 10. Reactions ; The nature of mental language; The structure of mental language; Parisian nominalism; Conclusion ; Postscript to the English-Language Edition (2014); On the ancient and patristic sources; On Augustine and Boethius; On Abelard and the twelfth century; On Aquinas and the thirteenth century; On Ockham and the late medieval period; Bibliography; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z