My purpose in this paper is to investigate some ancient conceptions of the composition and structure of sentences, focusing on Plato and Aristotle, with short forays into other authors and ages. I concern myself mainly with two mutually connected issues. First, both Plato and Aristotle hold that a minimal simple sentence consists of two expressions of different kinds, which they call onoma and rhema; I shall try to make clear the nature and purport of this distinction, which is controversial. Secondly (but partly at the same time), I try to trace the emergence and early development, from Plato to the Stoics, of the idea that a simple declarative sentence has a signification of its own over and above the signification of its parts.

Names, verbs, and sentences in ancient Greek philosophy / Ademollo, Francesco. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 33-54.

Names, verbs, and sentences in ancient Greek philosophy

ADEMOLLO, FRANCESCO
2015

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My purpose in this paper is to investigate some ancient conceptions of the composition and structure of sentences, focusing on Plato and Aristotle, with short forays into other authors and ages. I concern myself mainly with two mutually connected issues. First, both Plato and Aristotle hold that a minimal simple sentence consists of two expressions of different kinds, which they call onoma and rhema; I shall try to make clear the nature and purport of this distinction, which is controversial. Secondly (but partly at the same time), I try to trace the emergence and early development, from Plato to the Stoics, of the idea that a simple declarative sentence has a signification of its own over and above the signification of its parts.
2015
978-0-19-873249-5
Linguistic content: new essays on the history of philosophy of language
33
54
Ademollo, Francesco
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