Being Another Way: The Copula and Arabic Philosophy of Language, 900-1500 Volume 6

by Dustin Klinger

In Being Another Way, Dustin Klinger recounts the history of how medieval Arabic philosophers in the Islamic East grappled with the logical role of the copula "to be," an ambiguity that has bedeviled Western philosophy from Parmenides to the analytic philosophers of today. Working from within a language that has no copula, a group of increasingly independent Arabic philosophers began to critically investigate the semantic role that Aristotle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520401638
• ISBN13: 9780520401631
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"