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Cover 1 Title Page, Series Page, Copyright 2 Contents 8 Editorial Foreword 10 Preface 12 Introduction 18 1. Plato and Aristotle 26 2. Logos endiathetos 45 3. Verbum in corde 75 4. Oratio mentalis 95 5. Triple Is the Word 118 6. Act versus Idol 138 7. Concept and Sign 157 8. What Is Logic About? 176 9. Ockham’s Intervention 194 10. Reactions 215 Conclusion 234 Postscript to the English-Language Edition (2014) 246 Bibliography 276 Index of Names 294 Publisher:Fordham University Press,Published:2017,ISBN:9780823272624,Language:English,OCLC:965826885 The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and became central in late medieval philosophy. Mental Language examines the background of Ockham's innovation by tracing the history of the mental language theme in ancient and medieval thought. Panaccio identifies two important traditions: one philosophical, stemming from Plato and Aristotle, and the other theological, rooted in the Fathers of the Christian Church. The study then focuses on th

Author

Claude Panaccio; Joshua P Hochschild; Meredith K Ziebart

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823272600

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History