Thales of Miletus and the semantic possibilities of his view of the soul

In this paper, a thesis about the soul attributed, according to Diogenes Laërtius, to Thales of Miletus by Aristotle and Hippias is reviewed both by means of the machinery provided by standard logical calculus and from the semantic framework of the mental models theory. The conclusions are that, whi...

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Published in:Aisthema
Main Author: López Astorga, Miguel 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2017]
In: Aisthema
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
TB Antiquity
Further subjects:B Semantics
B Natural Language Processing
B mental models
B Logic
B Thales of Miletus
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Summary:In this paper, a thesis about the soul attributed, according to Diogenes Laërtius, to Thales of Miletus by Aristotle and Hippias is reviewed both by means of the machinery provided by standard logical calculus and from the semantic framework of the mental models theory. The conclusions are that, while it is very hard to capture the sense of that thesis using the logical forms of standard calculus, the mental models theory can easily show its exact meaning and the particular semantic possibilities to which it refers. In the same way, a possible objection against the arguments proposed in this direction is responded.
ISSN:2284-3515
Contains:Enthalten in: Aisthema