Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle

Order in Multiplicity: Homonymy in the Philosophy of Aristotle
ISBN-10
0198237154
ISBN-13
9780198237150
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
1999-01-28
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Christopher Shields

Description

Christopher Shields presents the first full study of a key feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts, that is, with the fact that a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. Shields examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity, in a variety of areas of inquiry, and demonstrates the continuing fruitfulness of his methodology.

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