Propositional Perception: Phantasia, Predication and Sign in Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics - Softcover

Barnouw's book is a worthwhile contribution to the growing literature on Stoic logic and epistemology...[with] many valuable insights and suggestions for further research. -- Michael B. Papazian, Berry College * Ancient Philosophy * Barnouw...offer[s] insight into Stoic psychology from an unusual intellectual standpoint; the most original feature is the analogy with the ideas of the American Pragmatists. -- Christopher Gill, Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter * Phronesis *

The early Greek Stoics were the first philosophers to recognize the object of normal human perception as predicative or propositional in nature. Fundamentally we do not perceive qualities or things, but situations and things happening, facts. To mark their difference from Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics adopted phantasia as their word for perception.