Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle (Oxford Aristotle Studies Series) Book

Presents a full study of a key feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts that is with the fact that a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. The author examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity in a variety of areas of inquiry.Read More

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    Aristotle attaches particular significance to the homomyny of many of the central concepts in philosophy and science: that is, to the diversity of ways of being that are denoted by a single concept. Shields here investigates and evaluates Aristotle's approach to questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments necessary to establish the homonymy of a given concept. Then, in a series of case studies, he examines in detail some of Aristotle's principal applications of homonymy--to the body, sameness and and oneness, life, goodness, and being. This first full-length study of a central aspect of Aristotle's thought will interest philosophers working in a number of areas.

  • 0198237154
  • 9780198237150
  • Christopher Shields
  • 28 January 1999
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
  • 198th
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