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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822362303321

Autore

Shields Christopher John

Titolo

Order in multiplicity : homonymy in the philosophy of Aristotle / / Christopher Shields

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Clarendeon Press, : Oxford

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-281-98900-2

9786611989002

0-19-151917-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Oxford Aristotle studies

Disciplina

185

Soggetti

Methodology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

Christopher Shields presents the first full study of a key feature of Aristotle's philosophical and scientific investigations: his concern with the homonymy of certain concepts, that is, with the fact that a single concept stands for a multiplicity of kinds of thing. Shields examines how Aristotle seeks order within this multiplicity, in a variety of areas of inquiry, and demonstrates the continuing fruitfulness of his methodology.