Modrak Deborah K.W. Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning

Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 10, 302 p. — ISBN: o 521 77266 4.This is a book about Aristotle's philosophy of language, interpreted in a framework that provides a comprehensive interpretation of Aristotle's metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology and science. The aims of the book are to explicate the description of meaning contained in De Interpretatione and to show the relevance of that theory of meaning to much of the rest of Arisotle's philosophy. In the process Deborah Modrak reveals how that theory of meaning has been much maligned.Language and Knowledge
Meaning
Plato’s Challenge
Meaning and the De Interpretatione
Categories and Linguistic Units
Referring Expressions
Sentences
Ontological Presuppositions
Preview
Truth and Necessary Truth
Truth and Assertions
Correspondence Theory of Truth
Truth and Simples
Necessity
Hypothetical Necessity
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Language of Science
Definition and the Method of Division
The Foundations
Basic Concepts and First Principles
Defense of Empiricism
Common Notions and Science
Three Types of Science
Basic Concepts of Mathematics
Natural Science
Basic Concepts of Metaphysics
Endoxa and Dialectic
Essences and the Basic Concepts of Science
Definition and Essence
Definition and Ontology
Requirements of Speech and Knowledge
Definition and Essence
Real Definition and Ordinary Definition
Theaetetus Puzzles Revisited
Logos as Substance
The Same Logos
Form and Matter
Unity of Substance and Definition
Identity and Accidental Sameness
Forms and UniversalsCognition and Meaning
Phantasia and Representation
Psychological Basis of Meaning
Sensory Representation
Likeness and Reference
A Different Reading
Drawbacks for the Theory of Meaning
Abstract Thought and Meaning
Thought
Sensory Representation and Universals
Answer to the Puzzle
Synopsis
Conclusions
Pulling the Threads Together
The Ancient Perspective
The Modern Perspective
Final Thoughts