
HoP 099 - Richard Sorabji on the Commentators
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's View of Nouns and Verbs
One of your original motivations for this whole project and for reading the commentators more generally is that they can help us to understand Aristotle. So can you give us a few examples of where they've helped you to understand Aristotle better? Yes, well I've got a paper just published this week about five lines of Aristotle and what the commentator said about those lines which they took to be giving Aristotle's view of the meaning of nouns and verbs. It relates to modern questions about whether we have representations in ourselves when we mean something and if so whether those representations are likenesses or symbols.
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