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Zusatztext beautifully lucid and carefully reasoned ... 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. Informationen zum Autor C. W. A. Whitaker was formerly a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. This is his first book. He now lives in North Yorkshire. Klappentext De Interpretatione is among Aristotle's most influential and widely read writings; 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 Arisotle's system. He shows that De Interpretatione is not a disjointed essay on ill- connected subjects! as traditionally thought! but a highly organized and systematic treatise on logic! argument! and dialectic. Zusammenfassung "De Interpretatione" is among Aristotle's most influential and widely-read writings. Whitaker presents a systematic study of this work and offers a radical new view of its aims, its structure, and its place in Aristotle's system, based upon a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the text. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
