On Interpretation

Name: On Interpretation
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781787364745

Author: Aristotle

Narrator: Mia Goodrum

Unabridged: 1 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 11/06/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

In his work On Interpretation, Aristotle seeks to uncover the underlying principles of language and meaning. He begins by examining the nature of signs and symbols, and how they are used to communicate information. He then goes on to explore the relationship between language and reality, and how our understanding of words is shaped by our experience of the world. Ultimately, Aristotle concludes that language is a tool for understanding reality, and that its meaning is determined by the way we use it. Read in English, unabridged.

About Aristotle

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and a tutor to Alexander the Great. His writings, on such diverse subjects as rhetoric, logic, politics, ethics, biology, physics, and poetry, comprise some of the foundations of Western philosophy. He wrote as many as 200 treatises during his lifetime, of which only 31 survive. Of these, Aristotle's best-known works include Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Eudemian Ethics, Politics, and On the Soul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on July 15, 2023

On a number of levels, I was surprised, while reading this treatise by Aristotle, to find myself encountering Aristotle the grammarian. The great philosopher begins On Interpretation by writing that “By a noun we mean a sound significant by convention, which has no reference to time, and of which no......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on March 02, 2019

Aristotle’s distinctions of contrary and contradictory are somewhat watery and sometimes misunderstood quite frankly. I found this book in particular to be very useful in understanding the correct way to interpret these different terms. I know for a fact that the distinctions between participle and......more

Goodreads review by Sananab on June 11, 2022

My basic takeaway from this is that not every not-man is not not just.......more

Goodreads review by J.R. on November 18, 2022

“Thus, if it is true to say that a thing is white, it must necessarily be white; if the reverse proposition is true, it will of necessity not be white. Again, if it is white, the proposition stating that it is white was true; if it is not white, the proposition to the opposite effect was true. And i......more