2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Rethinking of mediaeval theory of being from modern semantic and pragmatic points of view
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18520029
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Masato Kansai University, 外国語学部, 教授 (90185869)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | 意味論 / 語用論 / 存在論 / 中世哲学 |
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| Research Abstract |
Modern scholars, such as Geach, Weidemann, Kenny, and Davies, pick out one or two senses of 'esse' in Aquinas, translate it into 'existence' or squeeze it into the concept of existence in its modern sense. But this kind of things are irrelevant to Aquinas himself. For Aquinas doesn't even use the term 'existere' or 'existentia' when he talks about the nature of existential propositions and Aquinas has a system of the semantic dichotomy of 'esse' and 'ens', whose meanings can't be fully systematically understood except in terms of the semantic dichotomy and the pragmatic analysis.
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