Language and Learning

Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age
Herausgeber: Dorothea, Frede; Inwood, Brad; Frede, Dorothea

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays exploring theories of language developed by philosophers during the Hellenistic period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521071253
• ISBN-10: 0521071259
• Artikelnr.: 24724329

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Dorothea Frede and Brad Inwood
1. The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology James Allen
2. Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica A. A. Long
3. Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language Alexander Verlinsky
4. Lucretius on what language is not Catherine Atherton
5. Communicating cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap Ineke Sluiter
6. Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa Charles Brittain
7. Varro's anti-analogist David Blank
8. The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation Susanne Bobzien
9. What is a disjunction? Jonathan Barnes
10. Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Sten Ebbesen.