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Article: Barnes, Jonathan. Truth, etc.(Book review)
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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BARNES, Jonathan. Truth, etc. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. viii + 551 pp. Cloth, $65.00--"Ancient logic is not sexy," laments Jonathan Barnes in his introduction to Truth, etc. Yet in the tradition of Lewis Carroll, Barnes has given us a book on logic that is witty, entertaining, and idiosyncratic. In a word, sexy. Not that it is an easy read, or that the arguments are not subtle, or the scholarship not impeccable. Barnes makes use of passages drawn from a large cast of characters, both well known ones such as Aristotle and Proclus, and ones not so well known such as Dionysius Thrax and Herminus. He also makes many references to modern logic. The book is based on the ...