The Logic of being : historial studies / edited by Simo Knuuttila and Jaakko Hintikka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knuuttila, Simo, 1946-

Hintikka, Jaakko, 1929-2015.

Series:

Synthese historical library ; v. 28.

Synthese historical library ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology--History.

Ontology.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 300 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel ; Hingham, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1986]

Contents:

Introduction

Retrospective on the verb 'to be' and the concept of being / Charles H. Kahn

Identity and predication in Plato / Benson Mates

Aristotle and existence / Russell M. Dancy

The varieties of being in Aristotle / Jaakko Hintikka

The chimera's diary / edited by Sten Ebbesen

Peter Abelard's investigations into the meaning and fuctions of the speech sign 'est' / Klaus Jacobi

The logic of being in Thomas Aquinas / Hermann Weidemann

Being qua being in Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus / Simo Knuuttila

On Descartes's argument for dualism and the distinction between different kinds of beings / Lilli Alanen

Kant on existence, prediction, and the ontological argument / Jaakko Hintikka

On Frege's concept of being / Leila Haaparanta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

ISBN:

9027720193

OCLC:

12556507