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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810482803321

Autore

Mora-Márquez Ana María

Titolo

The thirteenth-century notion of signification : the discussions and their origin and development / / by Ana María Mora-Márquez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Brill, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-04-30013-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Investigating medieval philosophy, , 1879-9787 ; ; volume 10

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Reference (Linguistics)

Signification (Logic)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Introduction / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Ancient Sources / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Medieval Discussions about Signification of Concepts and Signification of Things / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Names and Verbs in Priscian and in Aristotle / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- The Role of the Significate (significatum) in Grammar and in Logic / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Conclusion / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Bibliography / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Index of Subjects / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Index of Modern Authors / Ana María Mora-Márquez -- Index of Ancient and Medieval Authors / Ana María Mora-Márquez.

Sommario/riassunto

In The Thirteenth-Century Notion of Signification , Ana María Mora-Márquez presents an exhaustive study of the three 13th-century discussions explicitly dealing with the notion of Significatio . Her study aims to show that the three discussions emerge because of apparently opposite claims about the signification of words in the authoritative literature of the period, namely in Aristotle, Boethius and Priscian. It also shows that the three discussions develop in the same direction – towards a unified use of the notion of signification, which keeps its explanatory role in semiotics, but loses its role in grammar and logic. Mora-Márquez offers us the first exhaustive analysis of the scholarly discussions around the notion of signification in the pre-nominalist medieval tradition.