Mourelatos

Mourelatos saw Parmenides as utilizing a specialized, predicative sense of the verb “to be” in speaking of “what is”: this is used to reveal a thing's nature or essence.

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

Moreover, the reference in Fragment 5 to things “giving signs” of numbers is "the first recorded attempt in the history of metaphysics at coining a term for [the relation between a particular and a universal]" (Mourelatos 2006, 66).

Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

Recent work on Xenophanes 'epistemology and his cosmology has made much of his scientific work clearer and more impressive (Lesher 1992, Mourelatos forthcoming).

Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007

Mourelatos, Alexander P. “Aristotle's rationalist account of qualitative interaction,”

Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

Mourelatos, Alexander P. “Aristotle's powers and modern empiricism,” Ratio, 9 (1967): 97-104.

Aristotle's Natural Philosophy Bodnar, Istvan 2006

These terms are Aristotle's interpretation of Democritus 'own terminology, which has a more dynamic sense (Mourelatos 2004).

Democritus Berryman, Sylvia 2004

"What we're really in the middle of is a journey that the board will be going through in the next four to six months as we look for new leadership," Mourelatos said.

Sierra Sun - Top Stories By Jason Shueh Sierra Sun 2010

Teshara's role was large and complex, Mourelatos said, something that might best be handled through committees or through a joint effort of resort association staff.

Sierra Sun - Top Stories By Jason Shueh Sierra Sun 2010

(˜know™) correspond to states; verbs with continuous form for which the present continuous entails the past perfect (˜John is walking uphill™ entails ˜John walked uphill™) correspond to activities; and verbs for which the present continuous entails the negation of the past perfect (˜John is climbing the mountain™ entails ˜John has not (yet) climbed the mountain™, at least in the relevant context) correspond to performances [Mourelatos 1978].

Events Casati, Roberto 2006

This sense of the verb, dubbed by Mourelatos “the ˜is 'of speculative predication,” is supposed to feature in statements of the form, “X is

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008