Stoic Logic, Mates, Chapter 1, §4 Summary (§0)

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Chapter II: Signs, Sense, and Denotation

§4 Summary (§0)

There are two sections in this chapter.

1) The first contains

1a) an account of the Stoic distinction between the sign, the significate (the "Lekton"), and the physical object to which the sign refers.

1b) detailed description of various types of signs and their corresponding Lekta.

2) The second section contains

2a) a comparison of Stoic theories with those of Frege and Carnap.

2b) a discussion of the likeness between Stoic and Carnap's theories of "intension."

3c) numerous dissimilarities between Stoic and modern theories. Two main ones are

3c.I) Stoics restricted the denotation of expressions to bodies, and

3c.II) Stoics did not take truth-vales as the denotations of sentences.

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From:

Mates, Benson. Stoic Logic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. [Originally published in 1953 as Volume 26 of the University of California Publications in Philosophy.]