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1 online resource |
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Medieval philosophy: texts and studies |
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Medieval philosophy
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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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Thomas Aquinas |
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William Ockham |
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concept |
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language of thought |
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mental language |
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mental word |
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thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Thought and thinking -- History
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History
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Concepts.
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Logic.
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Language and logic
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Concepts
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Language and logic
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Logic
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Thought and thinking
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hochschild, Joshua P., 1972- translator
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Ziebart, Meredith K., translator
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| ISBN |
9780823272624 |
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0823272621 |
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9780823272648 |
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0823272648 |
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