Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology
- 2 Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica
- 3 Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language
- 4 Lucretius on what language is not
- 5 Communicating Cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap
- 6 Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa
- 7 Varro's anti-analogist
- 8 The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation
- 9 What is a disjunction?
- 10 Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- References
- Index nominum et rerum
- Index locorum
Index nominum et rerum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Stoics on the origin of language and the foundations of etymology
- 2 Stoic linguistics, Plato's Cratylus, and Augustine's De dialectica
- 3 Epicurus and his predecessors on the origin of language
- 4 Lucretius on what language is not
- 5 Communicating Cynicism: Diogenes' gangsta rap
- 6 Common sense: concepts, definition and meaning in and out of the Stoa
- 7 Varro's anti-analogist
- 8 The Stoics on fallacies of equivocation
- 9 What is a disjunction?
- 10 Theories of language in the Hellenistic age and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- References
- Index nominum et rerum
- Index locorum
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- Language and LearningPhilosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age, pp. 336 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005