Imposition of Words in Stoicism and Late Ancient Grammar and Philosophy
Ancient thinkers agreed that words have received their meanings by an institution, a θέσις, but they disagreed about the extent to which the choice of sounds to represent a given thing was at the discretion of the person instituting the name. The Stoics clearly thought that generally ‟name-setters”...
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Université de Lille
2019-02-01
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Series: | Methodos |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/5641 |