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- On the contrary, he argues that certain homonymous concepts, while complex, are nevertheless ordered around a core. That is, Aristotle appeals to homonymy to find order in multiplicity; and he thinks that the order he finds permits genuine analysis of a sort which makes scientific inquiry legitimate and philosophical progress possible.
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Sep 5, 2002 · In this book, Christopher Shields offers the first full‐length investigation of homonymy in Aristotle's work, in which he explicates and assesses Aristotle's commitment to homonymy in both critical and constructive contexts.
- Introduction
In this book, I explicate and assess Aristotle's commitment...
- Homonymy and Signification
Shields examines Aristotle's notion of signification, and...
- Introduction
Jan 30, 2003 · 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.
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- Paperback
- Christopher Shields
Nov 1, 2003 · In Ch. 1, Shields discusses the first characterization of homonymy in the Categories, with a view to assessing the role of homonymy in Aristotle's later works; in Chs. 2 to 4 Shields...
- Christopher Shields
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...
- Christopher Shields
- 0199253072, 9780199253074
- illustrated, reprint
- Clarendon Press, 2002
The paper analyses the argumentative strategies of the ancient commentators on Aristotle’sMetaphysics Α 9, Α 6 andΜ 4 and the functions ascribed by them to Aristotle’s doxographic reports and …
