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The Logic of Being - Historical Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
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The Logic of Being - Historical Studies (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 28
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The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our
understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general
concept of being and its several varieties. The most general
examination of the meaning of the Greek verb 'esti'/'einai'/'on'
both in common usage and in the philosophical literature has been
presented by Charles H. Kahn, most extensively in his 1973 book The
Verb 'Be' in Ancient Greek. These discussions are summarized in
Kahn's contribution to this volume. By and large, they show that
conceptual schemes by means of which philosophers have recently
approached Greek thought have not been very well suited to the way
the concept of being was actually used by the ancients. For one
thing, being in the sense of existence played a very small role in
Greek thinking according to Kahn. Even more importantly, Kahn has
argued that Frege and Russell's thesis that verbs for being, such
as 'esti', are multiply ambiguous is ill suited for the purpose of
appreciating the actual conceptual assumptions of the Greek
thinkers. Frege and Russell claimed that a verb like 'is' or'esti'
is ambiguous between the 'is' of identity, the 'is' of existence,
the copulative 'is', and the generic 'is' (the 'is' of
class-inclusion). At least a couple of generations of scholars have
relied on this thesis and fre quently criticized sundry ancients
for confusing these different senses of 'esti' with each other."
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