The Stoics on Ambiguity.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimal staining on edge, overall very good and clean. / Minimale Anschmutzung auf Schnitt, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: 1. The scope of this book -- 2. Sources and materials -- 3. Morality talks: the origins and limits of Stoic interest in ambiguity -- 4. The Stoic definition of ambiguity -- 5. The Stoic classifications 1: The Sources -- 6. The Stoic classifications 2: Stoic types of ambiguity -- 7. Ambiguity and the fallacy -- 8. The influence of Stoic teaching -- 9. A survey of conclusions. - Stoic work on ambiguity represents one of the most innovative, sophisticated, and rigorous contributions to philosophy and the study of language in western antiquity. This book is both the first comprehensive survey of the often difficult and scattered sources, and the first attempt to locate Stoic material in the rich array of contexts, ancient and modern, which alone can guarantee full appreciation of its subtlety, scope and complexity. The Stoics� primary motivation for interest in ambiguity was ethical and moral - a now surprising approach crying out for philosophical analysis and explanation. But, beyond this, identifying the nature and effects of ambiguity, and defining and classifying it, demanded application of concepts, categories, and techniques from grammar, semantics, stylistics, formal and philosophical logic, psychology, and epistemology - areas of philosophy in which the achievements of the Stoa are only now reaching a wider audience. The comparisons and contrasts which this book constructs will thus intrigue not just classical scholars, and philosophers, but also logicians, theoretical linguists, communication theorists, and historians of grammar and of literary theory. The Stoics on ambiguity is designed to be intelligible to readers with no Greek or Latin. ISBN 9780521441391