UID:
almahu_9949384557702882
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
First [edition].
ISBN:
9780429273827
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0429273827
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9781000021912
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1000021912
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9781000022148
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1000022145
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9781000022377
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1000022374
Series Statement:
Issues in ancient philosophy
Uniform Title:
Essays. Selections.
Content:
The late Mario Mignucci was one of the most authoritative, original, and influential scholars in the area of ancient philosophy, especially ancient logic. Collected here for the first time are sixteen of his most important essays on Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics. These essays show a perceptive historian and a skillful logician philosophically engaged with issues that are still at the very heart of history and philosophy of logic, such as the nature of predication, identity, and modality. As well as essays found in disparate publications, often not easily available online, the volume includes an article on Plato and the relatives translated into English for the first time and an unpublished paper on De interpretatione 7. Mignucci thinks rigorously and writes clearly. He brings the deep knowledge of a scholar and the precision of a logician to bear on some of the trickiest topics in ancient philosophy. This collection deserves the close attention of anyone concerned with logic, language, and metaphysics, whether in ancient or contemporary philosophy.
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Conventions; PART I Inference and syllogism; 1 Syllogism and deduction in Aristotle's logic; 2 Expository proofs in Aristotle's syllogistic; 3 The Stoic themata; PART II Identity, predication, and quantification; 4 Remarks on Aristotle's theory of predication; 5 Puzzles about identity: Aristotle and his Greek commentators; 6 Aristotle's Topics and contingent identity; 7 Aristotle on universals and particulars; PART III Modality, time, and future contingents
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8 Aristotle's conception of the modal operators9 Logic and omniscience: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Proclus; 10 Ammonius on future contingent propositions; 11 Truth and modality in late antiquity: Boethius and future contingents; PART IV Paradoxes; 12 The Stoic analysis of the Sorites; 13 The Liar paradox and the Stoics; PART V Relatives; 14 Relatives in Plato; 15 Aristotle's definitions of relatives in Categories 7; 16 The Stoic notion of relatives; Bibliography; Publications by Mario Mignucci; Index; Index of passages
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mignucci, Mario, author. Ancient logic, language, and metaphysics New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367222185
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429273827
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429273827