Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic: A Study of Boethius’ Commentaries on Peri hermeneias

Boethius on Mind, Grammar and Logic: A Study of Boethius’ Commentaries on
Peri hermeneias......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Note to the Reader......Page 16
a. The Correspondences between Boethius’ Commentaries and Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias......Page 18
b-ii. The Second Commentary......Page 19
Chart 2: Chronology of Boethius’ Works......Page 20
Chart 3: Chronology of Major Thinkers and Writers......Page 22
Chart 4: Relationships among Ancient Commentators......Page 24
1. The Scope of This Work......Page 26
2. Boethius and the Aristotelian Tradition in the West......Page 28
3. The Past Studies of Boethius’ Commentaries on Peri hermeneias......Page 32
4. The Focus of This Work......Page 33
Part I: Boethius on Words and Mind......Page 40
1. Introduction......Page 42
2. Kretzmann’s Interpretation of ‘Significatum’......Page 45
3. Is ‘Significare’ a Technical Expression for ‘Sense’?......Page 47
4.1. Spoken Words Signify Thoughts......Page 51
4.2. Spoken Words Signify Thoughts and Things......Page 56
4.3. A Proposition Signifies Truth and Falsity......Page 60
5.1. Are there Empty Names?......Page 62
5.2. Is there a Truth-Value Gap?......Page 64
6. The Paradigm of Boethius’ Semantics......Page 66
1. Introduction......Page 68
2.1. 'Σύμβολον' (16a4)......Page 70
2.2. 'Σημεῖον' (16a6)......Page 73
2.3. 'Σημεῖον' ⊃ 'Σύμβολον'......Page 76
3.1. Why not ‘Symbolum’ for 'Σύμβολον'?......Page 77
3.2. Why not ‘Signum’ for ‘Σημεῖον’?......Page 83
3.3. ‘Nota’ in Cicero’s Topics......Page 89
3.4. ‘Nota’ Derived from ‘Noscere’......Page 90
3.5. ‘Nota’ as a Conventional Token......Page 91
3.6. ‘Nota’ with ‘Similitudo’......Page 95
4. Conclusion......Page 99
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Kretzmann’s Questions......Page 104
3.1. Universal Mental Speech in Boethius’ Texts......Page 106
3.2. Magee’s Answer to Kretzmann’s Second Question......Page 109
3.3. The Problems in Magee’s Interpretation......Page 113
3.4. The Status of the Noun-Verb Distinction in the Mind......Page 116
4.1. The Order of Things, Thoughts, Spoken Words and Written Words......Page 119
4.2. Ordering of Nature (Ordinatio Naturae)......Page 121
4.3. Signification and Causation......Page 124
4.4. The Order for a Speaker and a Listener......Page 130
5. Formations of Mental Speech and Spoken Speech......Page 133
6. Conclusion......Page 136
Part II: Boethius on Logic and Grammar......Page 140
1. Introduction......Page 142
2.1. The Historical Background: From Plato to Donatus......Page 145
2.2. Boethius’ Division......Page 149
2.3. Boethius’ Delineation of Logic vs. Grammar......Page 151
3. The Noun and the Verb......Page 154
3.1. The Common Conditions for the Noun and the Verb......Page 155
3.2. The Noun-Verb Distinction......Page 157
3.3. Indefinite Nouns and Verbs and Cases of Nouns and Verbs......Page 160
3.4. Different Noun-Verb Categories......Page 163
4. The Conjunction......Page 164
5. Conclusion......Page 172
1. Introduction......Page 176
3. Declarative vs. Other Four Species......Page 177
4. Distinctions for Explaining the Unity of Propositions: An Overview......Page 180
5.1. Single Affirmations and Negations......Page 184
5.2. Single Conditional Propositions......Page 187
6. Simple vs. Composite......Page 195
6.1. ‘Term’ (Terminus)......Page 196
6.2. ‘Diction’ (Dictio)......Page 199
6.3. The Simple Proposition......Page 200
7. The Combined Distinctions......Page 203
8. Single by Nature vs. Single by Stipulation......Page 206
9. Conclusion......Page 207
1. Introduction......Page 212
2. De Rijk’s Claim......Page 213
3. ‘Is’ in Boethius’ Monographs on Logic......Page 216
4. ‘Is’ in Boethius’ Exposition of Chapter 10 (‘Tertium Adiacens’)......Page 219
5.1. Aristotle’s Text and Boethius’ Translation......Page 224
5.2. Boethius’ Exposition......Page 227
5.3. Ammonius’ Exposition......Page 237
5.4. Differences between Boethius and Ammonius......Page 242
6. Conclusion......Page 244
VII. General Conclusions......Page 248
1. Some Significant Features of Boethius’ Semantics and Logic......Page 249
2. Boethius on Mind, Grammar, and Logic......Page 251
3. Boethius on Aristotle, the Stoics, and Neoplatonists......Page 256
1.1. Boethius’ Original Works......Page 262
1.2. Boethius’ Latin Translations......Page 263
1.3. Works of Other Ancient and Medieval Thinkers......Page 264
2. Secondary and Modern Literatures......Page 274
3. Dictionaries, Fragments or Excerpt Collections and Reference Books......Page 291
4. Electronic Databases......Page 292
Index of Ancient and Medieval Texts......Page 294
Index of Names (Ancient and Medieval Authors) and Subjects......Page 310
Index of Modern Authors (Selective)......Page 319