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Language and learning : philosophy of language in the Hellenistic Age
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Language and learning : philosophy of language in the Hellenistic Age

Author: Dorothea Frede; Brad Inwood
Publisher: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"With discussions ranging from the Stoics on the origin of language to the theories of language in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the collection will be of interest to students of philosophy and of language in the classical period and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Congrès
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dorothea Frede; Brad Inwood
ISBN: 052184181X 9780521841818
OCLC Number: 56198555
Description: ix, 353 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology / James Allen --
Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica / A.A. Long --
Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language / Alexander Verlinsky --
Lucretius on what language is not / Catherine Atherton --
Communicating cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap / Ineke Sluiter --
Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa / Charles Brittain --
Varro's anti-analogist / David Blank --
The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation / Susanne Bobzien --
What is a disjunction? / Jonathan Barnes --
Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Sten Ebbesen.
Responsibility: edited by Dorothea Frede and Brad Inwood.
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