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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Main Author: Sten Ebbesen
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université de Lille 2019-02-01
Series:Methodos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/5641