Al-Ghazālī on the Signification of Names.
Al-Ghazālī's most detailed explanation of how signification works occurs in his treatise on The Beautiful Names of God. Al-Ghazālī builds squarely on the commentary tradition on Aristotle's Peri hermeneias: words signify things by means of concepts and correspondingly, existence is laid out on three...
| Publicado en: | Vivarium Vol. 48; no. 1/2; pp. 55 - 75 |
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2010
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