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Part of Companions to Ancient Thought
- Editor: Stephen Everson, University of York
- Date Published: August 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521357951
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This volume is devoted to ancient theories of language. The chapters range over more than eight hundred years of philosophical enquiry, and provide critical analyses of all the principal accounts of how it is that language can have meaning and how we can come to acquire linguistic understanding. The discussions move from the naturalism examined in Plato's Cratylus to the sophisticated theories of the Hellenistic schools and the work of St. Augustine. The relations between thought about language and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and the development of grammar are also explored.
Read more- Covers all the principal theories of language in antiquity
- Suitable for those with no existing knowledge of the ancient texts
- Covers not only Plato and Aristotle but also the important post-Aristotelian theories of language
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"If ever a case is to be made that ancient philosophy is just an early species of analytic philosophy, this is the volume to do it....The quality of the essays, in every case, is extremely high." Robert Pasnau, Review of Metaphysics
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- Date Published: August 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521357951
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Plato on understanding language David Bostock
3. Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation Bernard Williams
4. Aristotle on names and their signification David Charles
5. Epicurus on mind and language Stephen Everson
6. The Stoic notion of a lekton Michael Frede
7. Parrots, Pyrrhonists and native speakers David K. Glidden
8. Analogy, anomaly and Apollonius Dyscolus David Blank
9. Usage and abusage: Galen on language R. J. Hankinson
10. Augustine on the nature of speech Christopher Kirwan
11. The verb 'to be' in Greek philosophy: some remarks Lesley Brown.
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