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This study intends to show that the ascription of many shortcomings or obscurities to Aristotle is due to the persistent misinterpretation of key notions in his works, including anachronistic perceptions of statement making. In the first volume, published separately (ISBN: 90-04-12324-5), Aristotle's semantics is culled from the Organon. This second volume presents Aristotle's ontology of the sublunar world, and pays special attention to his strategy of argument in light of his semantic views. This book is aimed at all those interested in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, the history of logic and semantics, and the development of metaphysics, as well as classical philologists and theologians.

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'...no library utilized for research in any area related to philosophy should be without this remarkable two-volume work...profound and provocative study...' Michael B. Ewbank, American Journal of Semiotics, 2005.

'...no library utilized for research in any area related to philosophy should be without this remarkable two-volume work...profound and provocative study...' Michael B. Ewbank, American Journal of Semiotics, 2005.

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L.M. de Rijk, Ph.D. (1952) in Philosophy at the State University of Utrecht, was born in 1924. He is Professor emeritus of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Leiden, and Honorary Professor at the University of Maastricht. He was a member of the Dutch Parliament (Senate, 1956-91; Deputy Speaker 1980-91), and is a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). He is the author of a large number of publications on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, including Plato's Sophist. A Philosophical Commentary (1984), The Letters of Nicholas of Autrecourt (Brill, 1985) and Giraldus Odonis, Opera philosophica (Brill, 1997).

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