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- Philosophy and the Language of the People
- Philosophy and the Language of the People
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Early Humanist Critics of Scholastic Language: Francesco Petrarch and Leonardo Bruni
- Chapter 2 From a Linguistic Point of View: Lorenzo Valla’s Critique of Aristotelian-Scholastic Philosophy
- Chapter 3 Giovanni Pontano on Language, Meaning, and Grammar
- Chapter 4 Juan Luis Vives on Language, Knowledge, and the Topics
- Chapter 5 Anti-Essentialism and the Rhetoricization of Knowledge: Mario Nizolio’s Humanist Attack on Universals
- Chapter 6 Skepticism and the Critique of Language in Francisco Sanches
- Chapter 7 Thomas Hobbes and the Rhetoric of Common Language
- Chapter 8 Between Private Signification and Common Use: Locke on Ideas, Words, and the Social Dimension of Language
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Philosophy and the Language of the People
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2021
- Philosophy and the Language of the People
- Philosophy and the Language of the People
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Early Humanist Critics of Scholastic Language: Francesco Petrarch and Leonardo Bruni
- Chapter 2 From a Linguistic Point of View: Lorenzo Valla’s Critique of Aristotelian-Scholastic Philosophy
- Chapter 3 Giovanni Pontano on Language, Meaning, and Grammar
- Chapter 4 Juan Luis Vives on Language, Knowledge, and the Topics
- Chapter 5 Anti-Essentialism and the Rhetoricization of Knowledge: Mario Nizolio’s Humanist Attack on Universals
- Chapter 6 Skepticism and the Critique of Language in Francisco Sanches
- Chapter 7 Thomas Hobbes and the Rhetoric of Common Language
- Chapter 8 Between Private Signification and Common Use: Locke on Ideas, Words, and the Social Dimension of Language
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Philosophy and the Language of the PeopleThe Claims of Common Speech from Petrarch to Locke, pp. i - iiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021