By Lodewijk Meijer
ISBN-10: 0874626668
ISBN-13: 9780874626667
Lodewijk Meyer (1629-1681) completed status in his personal time because the writer of the 1st dictionary of the Dutch language, the director of the Amsterdam Theatre, and one of many co-founders of the literary society, Nil Volentibus arduum. a private good friend of Baruch Spinoza, Meyer was once the editor of the latter's rules of Cartesian Philosophy (for which he additionally supplied an intensive advent) and a kind of who prepared for the e-book of the philosopher's works following his demise in 1677. the 1st version of Philosophy because the Interpreter of Holy Scripture was once released anonymously in Amsterdam in 1666, and created a right away furor and sequence of condemnations through the ecclesiastical courts. The paintings used to be additionally reprinted two times as an appendix to Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise; and in these variations used to be attributed to Spinoza. An nameless Dutch variation seemed in 1667, and new Latin variations in 1673 and 1674. proof for the endurance of the paintings and the controversies which surrounded it's present in the truth that it underwent a fourth version lengthy after Meyer's loss of life in 1776. the current translation is the 1st into English, and utilises the Latin variations of 1666 and 1673. Notes and variation readings to the Dutch version of 1667 also are supplied through Francis Pastijn (Marquette University). Samuel Shirley is usually the translator of the whole Latin works of Spinoza (Hackett Publishing Company), a chain for which Lee Rice (Marquette collage) additionally served as co-editor. as a result relation among Meyer and Spinoza, and the actual relation which Meyer's examine of Scripture bears to Spinoza's personal Theologico-Political Treatise; Philosophy because the Interpreter ofHoly Scripture' is a useful source for the advance of post-cartesian philosophy and its impression upon either theological and political debates on the finish of the 17th century.
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The kinds of ambiguity in respect of the subject. What homonymy is, and its different kinds. Accidental homonymy. Intentional homonymy. How words come to be accepted, and in what different ways. What amphiboly is, and its different kinds. The ways in which a sentence may be accepted. The kinds of ambiguity arising from the spoken sentence. And from the written sentence. The complexity and frequency of ambiguities. PSSI - 42 - Meyer 26. The kinds of ambiguity with respect to ourselves. 27. A comparison between these ambiguities.
So since it is obscurity that brings a sentence to the attention of our interpreter and makes it the formal object of his study, this requires of us a more protracted discourse. Chapter III 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. The meaning of a sentence. Clarity and obscurity. These are relative, not absolute, terms. The plurality of meanings and their definitions. The different kinds of clarity and obscurity. Distinction between the truth of a sentence and its true meaning.
44-45) and Maresius (Disputatio, 1667, III § X) argue against Meyer that Scripture possesses ‘multiplices sensus’. Maresius cites Clauberg in defence of this claim, but the argument which he offers is probably derived instead from Calvin. See Bordoli (1997, 126). PSSI - 44 - Meyer I do indeed admit that these meanings can sometimes coincide, so that the one the author intended and the one that is presented to the listener or reader from common usage are the same, although the sentence may bear yet another sense.
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