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Modrak, Deborah K. W. Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning.(Book Review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20040301
Author:Miller, Fred

MODRAK, Deborah K. W. Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ix + 302 pp. Cloth, $70.00--This is a comprehensive and illuminating examination of Aristotle's philosophy of language. Aristotle's brief account of signs in De Interpretatione has been dismissed as superficial and inadequate, mainly by commentators who have tended to read it in isolation. Especially cryptic is Aristotle's Likeness Thesis: spoken words are symbols or signs of pathemata (affections) of the soul, which are "likenesses" of things (16a3-8). Modrak argues that ...

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