Volume 54 (1999), 6

The author investigates Frege's exposition of proper names, as well as his claim that individual (Gegenstand) as a denotation of proper name is not a part of the proposition. The second part of the paper shows the insufficiencies of Church's conception of proper names. The author quotes Russell's position that the individual is an original part of the proposition… Read more

The paper examines Thomas Aquinas' argumentation concerning his assertions related to human beings, such as incorporeity, subsistence, spiritualness, immortality of the soul, conjunction of the soul and the body, importance of human body. At the same time it reveals, in polemics with Kenny and Swiezawski, Thomas Aquinas' metaphysical presuppositions and affirmed… Read more