Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham

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Contents
Editorial Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART I: THE SOURCES
	1. Plato and Aristotle
		The soul’s dialogue with itself
		The locus of logical relations
		The composition of thought
	2. Logos endiathetos
		A Stoic notion?
		Philo and allegorical exegesis
		From Plutarch to Plotinus
		John Damascene and his sources
	3. Verbum in corde
		The battle against Gnosis
		The emergence of Latin theology
		Augustine: The development of a doctrine
	4. Oratio mentalis
		The case of Porphyry
		The testimony of Ammonius
		The commentaries of Boethius
		The passage through Islam
PART II: THIRTEENTH-CENTURY CONTROVERSIES
	5. Triple Is the Word
		Anselm’s Augustinianism
		The play of triads
		Sermo in mente
	6. Act versus Idol
		The Thomistic synthesis
		The first criticisms
		Back to the things themselves
	7. Concept and Sign
		Signs in the intellect
		John Duns Scotus and the question of the significate
		The language of angels
	8. What Is Logic About?
		Logic, composition, and truth
		Deep structure and logical form
		The subject of the Perihermeneias
		The elements of syllogism
PART III: THE VIA MODERNA
	9. Ockham’s Intervention
		The object of knowledge
		The ontology of the intelligible
		The semantics of concepts
		Natural signification
	10. Reactions
		The nature of mental language
		The structure of mental language
		Parisian nominalism
Conclusion
Postscript to the English-Language Edition (2014)
	On the ancient and patristic sources
	On Augustine and Boethius
	On Abelard and the twelfth century
	On Aquinas and the thirteenth century
	On Ockham and the late medieval period
Bibliography
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