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By Christopher Shields

ISBN-10: 0198237154

ISBN-13: 9780198237150

ISBN-10: 0199253072

ISBN-13: 9780199253074

Aristotle attaches specific value to the homomyny of a number of the crucial innovations in philosophy and technological know-how: that's, to the variety of how of being which are denoted via a unmarried inspiration. Shields right here investigates and evaluates Aristotle's method of questions about homonymy, characterizing the metaphysical and semantic commitments essential to determine the homonymy of a given proposal. Then, in a chain of case stories, he examines intimately a few of Aristotle's critical purposes of homonymy--to the physique, sameness and oneness, lifestyles, goodness, and being. this primary full-length learn of a significant element of Aristotle's suggestion will curiosity philosophers operating in a couple of areas.

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