Language and learning : philosophy of language in the Hellenistic age : proceedings of the ninth Symposium Hellenisticum /

The philosophers and scholars of the Hellenistic world laid the foundations upon which the Western tradition based analytical grammar, linguistics, philosophy of language, and other disciplines probing the nature and origin of human communication. Building on the pioneering work of Plato and Aristot...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Symposium Hellenisticum Hamburg, Germany
Other Authors: Frede, Dorothea, 1941-, Inwood, Brad
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy > Congresses.
Philosophy, Ancient > Congresses.
Langage et langues > Philosophie > Congrès.
Philosophie ancienne > Congrès.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology / James Allen
  • Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica / A.A. Long
  • Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language / Alexander Verlinsky
  • Lucretius on what language is not / Catherine Atherton
  • Communicating cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap / Ineke Sluiter
  • Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa / Charles Brittain
  • Varro's anti-analogist / David Blank
  • The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation / Susanne Bobzien
  • What is a disjunction? / Jonathan Barnes
  • Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Sten Ebbesen.

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