The Logic of being : historial studies /
Knuuttila, Simo,1946-
Hintikka, Jaakko,1929-
Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel ; Hingham, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c1986.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Introduction -- Retrospective on the verb 'to be' and the concept of being / Charles H. Kahn-- Identity and predication in Plato / Benson Mates -- Aristotle and existence / Russell M. Dancy -- The varieties of being in Aristotle / Jaakko Hintikka -- The chimera's diary / edited by Sten Ebbesen -- Peter Abelard's investigations into the meaning and fuctions of the speech sign 'est' / Klaus Jacobi -- The logic of being in Thomas Aquinas / Hermann Weidemann -- Being qua being in Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus / Simo Knuuttila -- On Descartes's argument for dualism and the distinction between different kinds of beings / Lilli Alanen -- Kant on existence, prediction, and the ontological argument / Jaakko Hintikka -- On Frege's concept of being / Leila Haaparanta.
Ontology