Aristotle's De Interpretatione
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Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic(Oxford Aristotle Studies Series)

Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Contradiction and Dialectic(Oxford Aristotle Studies Series)


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Aristotle's treatise De Interpretatione is one of his central works; it continues to be the focus of much attention and debate. C. W. A. Whitaker presents the first systematic study of this work, and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, basing this view upon a detailed chapter-by-chapter analysis. By treating the work systematically, rather than concentrating on certain selected passages, Whitaker is able to show that, contrary to traditional opinion, it forms an organized and coherent whole. He argues that the De Interpretatione is intended to provide the underpinning for dialectic, the system of argument by question and answer set out in Aristotle's Topics; and he rejects the traditional view that the De Interpretatione concerns the assertion and is oriented towards the formal logic of the Prior Analytics. In doing so, he sheds valuable new light on some of Aristotle's most famous texts.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1: Significant Utterances 2-3: The Name and Verb 4: Phrases and Assertions 5: Simple and Compound Assertions 6: Contradictory Pairs 7: Singular and Universal Assertions 8: Hidden Complex Assertions 9: Future Singular Assertions 10: Assertions and Inferences 11: Puzzles concerning Simple and Complex Assertions 12: Modal Assertions 13: More on Modal Assertions 14: Contrary Beliefs Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

About the Author :
C. W. A. Whitaker was formerly a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. This is his first book. He now lives in North Yorkshire.

Review :
`Review from previous edition In this beautifully lucid and carefully reasoned monograph, the conventional wisdom is triumphantly refuted. Whitaker takes us through the De Interpretatione chapter by chapter, displaying it as a sequence of lessons for would-be dialecticians. he casts much new light on the overall structure and purpose of the remarks... Before reading Whitaker, I too was in thrall to conventional wisdom; after reading Whitaker, things seemed to come into proper focus for the first time. Whitaker... uses his ingenuity to construct a reading that confronts, rather than evades, the subtleties of Aristotle's discussion, and to give, for the first time that I know of, a plausible account of them.' Nicholas Denyer, Mind


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199254194
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 301 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199254192
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2002
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
  • Sub Title: Contradiction and Dialectic
  • Width: 138 mm


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