Aristotle's Psychology of Signification (eBook)

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Simon Noriega-Olmos,University of São Paulo,Brazil.

Introduction 11
1 F... 14
1.1 The Problem of F... 16
1.2 Material, Physiological, and Psychological Aspects of F... 26
1.2.1 Physiology of F... 26
1.2.2 Psychological Aspect of F... 29
1.3 The Psychological Aspect of Vocalized Sound: Fa.tas.a or ...µa 34
1.3.1 Fa.tas.a: Trigger of Vocalized Sound and Information Conveyed by Vocalized Sound 38
1.3.2 Vocalized Sound as Motion 43
1.3.3 Human and Animal F... 46
2 S.µei.. 52
2.1 S.µa..e.., S.µei.., and S.µa.t..ó. in Classical Greek 52
2.2 S.µa..e.., S.µei.., and S.µa.t..ó. in Aristotle 57
2.2.1 Natural and Conventional Signification in Aristotle 60
2.2.2 S.µei.., S.ß...., and ....u. 65
2.3 Signs Signify Something that is One 71
2.3.1 Signifying T1 and ".. 71
2.3.2 Not-Man and Goat-Stag as Significata, T1 and ".. 78
2.3.3 Logical Aspects of the Unity of Nominal Definition 80
3 The Significatum 86
3.1 ...µa 86
3.1.1 General Meaning of ???µa 86
3.1.2 ..u., ......a, and d..a in De Interpretatione 91
3.2 ...µata in De Interpretatione and De Anima 94
3.2.1 Simple and Complex Thoughts 96
3.2.2. Truth and Falsehood in De Interpretatione and De Anima 99
3.2.3 Objects of Thought in De Interpretatione and De Anima 101
3.2.3.1 Individuals as Objects of Intellection 102
3.2.3.2 Species and Genera as Objects of Intellection 108
3.2.3.3 Non-Existent Entities as Objects of Intellection 110
4 ...µata in De Interpretatione and De Anima, a New Interpretation of De Interpretatione 16a3 — 8 115
4.1 De Interpretatione 16a3 — 8: Its Psychological Presuppositions and Its Philosophical Implications 116
4.2 Psychological Background Suggested by '.µ...µa 117
4.3 Impact of the Reading '.µ...µa as an Aristotelian Technical Term on the Global Interpretation of 16a3 —9 and ...t.. 125
4.4 ...t.. as a Technical Term and ....µa 134
4.5 Philosophical Implications of Reading ...t.. as ‘Priomordial’ 135
4.6 Why Thoughts Are the Same for Everybody and why Phantasiai can be Different for Different People 137
4.7 The Text of De Interpretatione 16a3 —8 143
5 .at. S....... 151
5.1 Arbitrariness 153
5.1.1 Distinctive Features of Human Vocalized Sound and Articulation 153
5.1.2 Consistency between De Interpretatione and De Anima in the Understanding of Vocalized Sounds 166
5.2 Convention and an Interpretation of De Interpretation 16a21-29 and 16a3-8 169
5.3 Convention and ..... 174
Concluding Remarks 181
Bibliography 185
Name index 194