Download or read book Aristotle's Theory of Language and Its Tradition written by Hans Arens and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a fragment from Aristotle s "Peri Hermeneias" [16a1 17a7], with a translation into English and a commentary. This fragment is crucial to the understanding of Aristotle s thinking about language. It is followed by (translations of) commentaries on Aristotle s text by scholars between 500 and 1750, showing how his text was perceived over time. The commentaries are by Ammonius, Boethius, Abelaerd, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Acquinas, Martinus de Dacia, Johannes a S. Thoma, and James Harris. Each commentary is in turn commented upon by the compiler of this volume.