Title | Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1978 |
Journal | Hermes |
Volume | 106 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 73-99 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
n I904 E. HAMBRUCH2 tried to show that sometimes Aristotle himself uses synonymna in the Speusippean sense [...] and that in so doing he was influenced by Speusippus. This thesis of HAMBRUCH has been accepted by several scholars, including LANG, STENZEL, and CHERNISS 3; and, though some doubts about its soundness were expressed from different points of view4, it was only in I97I that Mr. Jonathan BARNES5 made a systematic assault on it. He contends, in the first place, that Speusippus's conception of homonyma and synonyma is essentially the same as that of Aristotle, the slight differences between their respective definitions of each being trivial, and, secondly, that even though in a few places Aristotle does use homonyma and synonyma as properties of linguistic terms, this is due to the fact that Aristotle's use of these words is not as rigid as the Categories would lead one to believe; he could not have been influenced by Speusippus because the latter conceived homonymy and synonymy as properties of things and, in any case, if influence of one on the other be assumed, it could as well have been Aristotle that influenced Speusippus. Though I believe that his two main contentions are mistaken, I am here mainly concerned with the first part of BARNES' thesis; for, if he were right in believing that for Speusippus homonyma and synonyma are properties of things and not of names or linguistic terms, then HAMBRUCH'S notion that Speusippus did influence Aristotle when the latter uses synonymon as a property of names would be wrong, even though BARNES himself were mistaken in his analysis of the Aristotelian passages he reviews in the second part of his paper. [pp. 73 f.] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/vll1Z7jifmlOH0h |
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Title | Speusippus and Aristotle on Homonymy and Synonymy |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 1978 |
Journal | Hermes |
Volume | 106 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 73-99 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/vll1Z7jifmlOH0h |
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