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Article: Hintikka, Jaakko. Analyses of Aristotle.(Book review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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HINTIKKA, Jaakko. Analyses of Aristotle. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. xii + 238 pp. Cloth, $165.00--These fourteen studies comprise the sixth and final collection in the Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers. Composed during three decades by this renowned scholar, they are presented in the "hope that these essays will inspire others to explore further the possibilities that they open" (p. xi).
The first two chapters examine Aristotle's notion of existence and the allegation that he understood is to intrinsically involve ambiguity. Hintikka insists "that Aristotle may have been the only early philosopher who consciously considered the ambiguity thesis," ...