Ancient Logic, Language, and Metaphysics

Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Conventions; PART I: INFERENCE AND SYLLOGISM; Chapter 1: Syllogism and deduction in Aristotle's logic; Chapter 2: Expository proofs in Aristotle's syllogistic; Chapter 3: The Stoic themata; PART II: IDENTITY, PREDICATION, AND QUANTIFICATION; Chapter 4: Remarks on Aristotle's theory of predication; Chapter 5: Puzzles about identity: Aristotle and his Greek commentators; Chapter 6: Aristotle's Topics and contingent identity; Chapter 7: Aristotle on universals and particulars; PART III: MODALITY, TIME, AND FUTURE CONTINGENTS; Chapter 8: Aristotle's conception of the modal operators; Chapter 9: Logic and omniscience: Alexander of Aphrodisias and Proclus; Chapter 10: Ammonius on future contingent propositions; Chapter 11: Truth and modality in late antiquity: Boethius and future contingents; PART IV: PARADOXES; Chapter 12: The Stoic analysis of the Sorites; Chapter 13: The Liar paradox and the Stoics; PART V: RELATIVES; Chapter 14: Relatives in Plato; Chapter 15: Aristotle's definitions of relatives in Categories 7; Chapter 16: The Stoic notion of relatives; Bibliography; Publications by Mario Mignucci; Index; Index of passages