Aristotle's De Interpretatione

C. W. A. Whitaker was formerly a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. This is his first book. He now lives in North Yorkshire.

• Introduction ; 1. Significant Utterances ; 2-3 The Name and Verb ; 4. Phrases and Assertions ; 5. Simple and Compound Assertions ; 6. Contradictory Pairs ; 7. Singular and Universal Assertions ; 8. Hidden Complex Assertions ; 9. Future Singular Assertions ; 10. Assertions and Inferences ; 11. Puzzles concerning Simple and Complex Assertions ; 12. Modal Assertions ; 13. More on Modal Assertions ; 14. Contrary Beliefs ; Conclusion ; Appendices ; Bibliography ; Index

beautifully lucid and carefully reasoned ... the conventional wisdom is triumphantly refuted. Whitaker takes us through the de Interpretatione chapter by chapter, displaying it as a sequence of lessons for would-be dialecticians. He casts much new light on the overall structure and purpose of the remarks ... Before reading Whitaker, I too was in thrall to conventional wisdom; after reading Whitaker, things seemed to come into proper focus for the first time. Whitaker... uses his ingenuity to construct a reading that confronts, rather than evades, the subtleties of Aristotle's discussion, and to give, for the first time that I know of, a plausible account of them.