The thirteenth-century notion of signification : the discussions and their origin and development / by Ana Maria Mora-Marquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mora-Márquez, Ana María, author.

Series:

Investigating medieval philosophy ; v. 10.

Investigating medieval philosophy ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reference (Linguistics).

Signification (Logic).

Physical Description:

vi, 183 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

In The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification, Ana Maria Mora-Márquez presents an exhaustive study of the three 13th-century discussions explicitly dealing with the notion of Significant. Her study aims to show that the three discussions emerge because of apparently opposite claims about the signification of words in the authoritative literature of the period, namely in Aristotle, Boethius and Priscian. It also shows that the three discussions develop in the same direction - towards a unified use of the notion of signification, which keeps its explanatory role in semiotics, but loses its role in grammar and logic. Mora-Marquez offers us the first exhaustive analysis of the scholarly discussions around the notion of signification in the pre-nominalist medieval tradition. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Signification of Concepts and Signification of Things

1 Ancient Sources 11

1.1 Aristotle's Perihermeneias 11

Perihermeneias 1.16a3-8: Utterances as Symbols and Signs 13

Perihermeneias 1.16a9-18: Simple and Compound Linguistic Items 18

Contradiction and Equivocation 20

1.2 Boethius' Second Commentary on the Perihermeneias 21

The Subject Matter of the Perihermeneias according to Boethius 22

Boethius on Perihermeneias 1.16a3-8 23

Concepts and Likenesses in Boethius 31

2 Medieval Discussions about Signification of Concepts and Signification of Things 36

2.1 Whether Words (Qua Names) Signify Concepts or Things 36

The Semiotic Angle 41

The Immediate Signification of Concepts 41

The Modist Rejection of the Immediate Signification of Concepts 52

Roger Bacon and Peter John Olivi's Rejection of the Immediate Signification of Concepts 61

The Verificational Angle 70

2.2 Whether Words Lose Their Signification with the Destruction of Their Significate 76

Anonymus Alani's 'Omnis Homo De Necessitate Est Animal' (Paris BNF Lat. 16135, ff. 99rb-103vb) 80

Roger Bacon's De Signis IV.2 87

Boethius of Dacia's Sophisma OHNEA 92

Peter John Olivi's Quaestiones logicales q.3 95

Anonymus Alani's Solution to the Sophisma OHNEA 98

Part 2 Signification in Logic and in Grammar

3 Names and Verbs in Priscian and in Aristotle 109

3.1 Priscian on the Constitution of Parts of Speech and Sentences 109

The Role of the Notion of Signification in the Division and Order of the Parts of Speech 111

Names and Verbs and Their Construction according to Priscian 115

3.2 Names and Verbs in Aristotle's Perihermeneias 118

4 The Role of the Significate (significatum) in Grammar and in Logic 123

4.1 The Pre-Modist Tradition 123

4.2 The Modist Tradition 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004298675

9004298673

OCLC:

910621987