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Being Measured: Truth and Falsehood in Aristotle's Metaphysics(SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

Being Measured: Truth and Falsehood in Aristotle's Metaphysics(SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)


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Advances an interpretation of Aristotle's theory of truth in terms of accurate measurement. On the basis of careful textual exegesis and philosophical analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Mark R. Wheeler offers a groundbreaking interpretation of Aristotle's theory of truth in terms of measurement. Wheeler demonstrates that Aristotle's investigation of truth and falsehood in the Metaphysics is rigorously methodical, that Aristotle's conceptions of truth contribute to the main lines of thought in the treatise, and that the Metaphysics, taken as a whole, contributes fundamentally to Aristotle's theory of truth. Wheeler provides not only an excellent introduction to the main problems in the theory of truth but also provides contemporary truth theorists with a rigorous explanation of Aristotle's theory of truth.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: Stating the Puzzles The Knots My Approach to the Metaphysics Part I. Philosophical Wisdom and Truth 1. The Demands of Philosophical Wisdom The Divine Science Hitting the Barn Door Being, Truth, and Causality The Beta Test Conclusion Part II. Truth and the Logical Axioms 2. What "Truth" and "Falsehood" Signify The Canonical Definition of Truth in Context Kinds of Definition Arguing for the Axioms Aristotle's Fundamental Philosophical Semantics Aristotle's Opponents The Nominal Definition of "Truth" What the Nominal Definitions Entail Conclusion 3. The Nominal Definition of "Truth" and the Axioms Truth and the Law of the Excluded Middle Simple Assertions and Contradictory Pairs Intermediate Assertions and LNC The Elenctic Argument at 1011b23−29 and the Nominal Definitions Conclusion Part III. Truth and Being 4. The Being of Truth Truth is a Kind of Being Being True is not Being a Kind of Object Matthen's Proposal Being a True Assertion Truth and the Other Kinds of Being Conclusion 5. Aristotle's Homonymous Truth Bearers The Homonymous Kinds of Truth and Falsehood True and False Assertions True and False Things Aristotle's Core Kind of Truth and Falsehood Conclusion 6. The Genus of Truth Identifying the Genus The Category of the Genus of Truth An Outstanding Problem: True Definitions of Essences Conclusion 7. The Activity of Truth True Assertions about Simples The Core Kind of Truth Redux The Power and Activity of Truth Conclusion Part IV. Truth and Measurement 8. Truth, Oneness, and Measurement The Extension of the Term "One" The Intension of the Term "One" Metaphysics Δ 6 on Oneness and Measure Conclusion 9. The Ground of Truth The Measure and the Measured Aristotle's Measure Doctrine Aristotle's Metrical Account of the Correspondence Relation Aristotle's Asymetrical Measurement Relation Conclusion Conclusion: The Subsequent Free Play of Thought Notes Bibliography Index Index Locorum

About the Author :
Mark R. Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with William A. Nericcio) of 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Impact on Contemporary Thought and Culture.

Review :
"The book's scholarship is impeccable." — CHOICE "Wheeler's book constitutes a major contribution to the scholarship on Aristotle's theory of truth and falsehood. The book offers much in terms of how to read the Metaphysics itself, and Wheeler's interpretation will strike some as defending a rather controversial and complex thesis centered around the idea that the Metaphysics ought to be read as a more systematically and philosophically unified document with the articulation of a robust theory of truth at the center of the entire work. Wheeler offers much food for thought." — Blake Hestir, author of Plato on the Metaphysical Foundation of Meaning and Truth


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  • ISBN-13: 9781438476858
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy
  • Weight: 666 gr
  • ISBN-10: 143847685X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Truth and Falsehood in Aristotle's Metaphysics
  • Width: 152 mm


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