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Linguistics into Interpretation

Speeches of War in Herodotus VII 5 & 8-18

By: Johannes M. van Ophuijsen,Peter Stork

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Linguistics into Interpretation

Speeches of War in Herodotus VII 5 & 8-18

By: Johannes M. van Ophuijsen,Peter Stork

This volume is a sustained exercise in the genre of secondary literature which aims at explaining a literary work as much as possible in and through the author's own words. A crucial passage in direct speech by different speakers from the History of Herodotus, the earliest long Greek prose text, has been made the object of a systematic effort to distill and analyse the linguistic characteristics relevant to its interpretation, by confronting it with the rest of the work as well as with earlier and contemporary writings. This is done with the primary aim of placing the interpretation of a major author on the firmest ground available, the author's ipsissimi verba. The result, made accessible by full indexes, will prove helpful to readers of any part of Herodotus' History.

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

By: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen

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Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

By: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen

Aristotle's Topics is about dialectic, which can be understood as a debate between two people or the inner debate of one thinker with himself. Its purposes range from philosophical training to discovering the first principles of thought. Its arguments concern the four predicables (definition, property, genus and accident). Aristotle explains how these four fit into his ten categories, and in Book 1 begins to outline strategies for debate, such as the definition of ambiguity. Alexander's commentary on Book 1 discusses how to define Aristotelian syllogistic argument, why it stands up against the rival Stoic theory of interference, and what is the character of inductive interference and of rhetorical argument. He distinguishes inseparable accidents such as the whiteness of snow from defining differentiae such as its being frozen, and considers how these fit into the scheme of categories. He speaks of dialectic as a stochastic discipline in which success is to be judged not by victory but by skill in argument, a view parallel to that sometimes taken in antiquity of medical practice. And he investigates the subject of ambiguity which had also been richly developed since Aristotle by the rival Stoic school.

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By: Johannes M.Van Ophuijsen

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Linguistics into Interpretation

Linguistics into Interpretation

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

Alexander of Aphrodisias: On Aristotle Topics 1

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