The Semantics of Analogy : Rereading Cajetan's De Nominum Analogia / Joshua P. Hochschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochschild, Joshua P., 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics (Philosophy).

Analogy.

Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio, 1469-1534. De nominum analogia.

Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 248 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Semantics of Analogy is the first book-length interpretive study in English of Thomas de Vio Cajetan's (1469?-1534) classic treatise on analogy. Written in 1498, De Nominum Analogia (On the Analogy of Names) has long been treated as Cajetan's attempt to systematize Aquinas's theory of analogy. A traditional interpretation regarded it as the official Thomistic treatise on analogy, but current scholarly consensus holds that Cajetan misinterpreted Aquinas and misunderstood the phenomenon of analogy. Both approaches, argues Joshua P. Hochschild, ignore the philosophical and historical context and fail to accurately assess Cajetan's work. In The Semantics of Analogy, Hochschild reinterprets De Nominum Analogia as a significant philosophical treatise in its own right. He addresses some of the most well-known criticisms of Cajetan's analogy theory and explicates the later chapters of De Nominum Analogia, which are usually ignored by commentators. He demonstrates that Cajetan was aware of the limits of semantic analysis, had a sophisticated view of the relationship between semantics and metaphysics, and expressed perceptive insights about concept formation and hermeneutics that are of continuing philosophical relevance.

Contents:

Systematizing Aquinas? : a paradigm in crisis

Reconstructing Cajetan's question : the semantic intent of De nominum analogia

Analogy, semantics, and the "concept vs. judgment" critique

Some insufficient semantic rules for analogy

Cajetan's semantic principles

The semantics of analogy : inequality and attribution

The semantics of proportionality: the proportional unity of concepts

The semantics of proportionality : concept formation and judgment

The semantics of proportionality : syllogism and dialectic.

Notes:

"This work began as a doctoral project at the University of Notre Dame"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268081676

0268081670

OCLC:

760170562