The Logic of Being: Historical Studies by Simo KnuuttilaEnglish | PDF | 1986 | 311 Pages | ISBN : 9027723710 | 30.4 MB
The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general concept of being and its several varieties. The most general examination of the meaning of the Greek verb 'esti'/'einai'/'on' both in common usage and in the philosophical literature has been presented by Charles H. Kahn, most extensively in his 1973 book The Verb 'Be' in Ancient Greek.