How Things Are Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy
One of the earliest and most influential treatises on the subject of this volume is Aristotle's Categories. Aristotle's title is a form of the Greek verb for speaking against or submitting an accusation in a legal proceeding. By the time of Aristotle, it
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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY Editors: WILFRID SELLARS,
KEITH LEHRER,
University of Pittsburgh University of Arizona
Board of Consulting Editors: JONATHAN BENNETT,Syracuse University ALLAN GIBBARD, University of Michigan ROBERT STALNAKER, Cornell University ROBERT
G. TURNBULL, Ohio State University
VOLUME 29
HOW THINGS ARE Studies in Predication and the History of Philosophy and Science Edited by
JAMES BOGEN Pitzer College, Claremont, U.S.A.
and
JAMES E. McGUIRE University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: How things are. (Philosophical studies series in philosophy; v. 29) Papers from a conference sponsored by Pitzer College in 1981. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Predicate (Logic)-History-Congrcsses. 2. OntologyHistory-Congresses. I. Bogen, James, 1935II. McGuire, J. E. III. Pitzer College. N. Series. BC181.H58 1984 III 84-8331 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-5199-0 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-8799-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-5199-0 Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, P.O. Box 17,3300 AA Dordrecht, Holland. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers 190 Old Derby Street, Hingham, MA 02043, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, Holland.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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JAMES BOGEN / Introduction ROBERT G. TURNBULL / Zeno's
Stricture and Predication in Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus FRANK A. LEWIS / Form and Predication in Aristotle's Metaphysics D. K. MODRAK / Forms and Compounds ALAN CODE / On the Origins of Some Aristotelian Theses About Predication FRANK A. LEWIS / Plato's Third Man Argument and the 'Platonism' of Aristotle MARILYN McCORD ADAMS / Things versus 'Hows', or Ockham on Predication and Ontology CALVIN NORMORE / Buridan's Ontology JAMES E. McGUIRE / Phenomenalism, Relations, and Monadic Representation: Leibniz on Predicate Levels ROBERT M. ADAMS / Predication, Truth, and Transworld Identity in Leibniz WILFRID SELLARS / Towards a Theory of Predication ALAN CODE / On the Origins of Some Aristotelian Theses About Predication: Appendix on 'The 1hird Man Argument'
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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
327
BIBLIOGRAPHY
329
INDEX OF LABELED EXPRESSIONS
337
NAME INDEX
339
SUBJECT INDEX
343
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The papers in this volume arose in variou
