L’eredità del problema filosofico di referenzialità e definitezza nella grammatica antica: gli ὀνόματα κύρια e προσηγορικά nella τέχνη γραμματική

The εἴδη of ὄνομα κύριον and προσηγορικόν of the τέχνη γραμματική overlap with the distinction between proper and common nouns. They originate, however, from the Aristotelian and Stoic reflection on the ability of names to specify a referent or to indicate its membership of a genus or a species. It is the grammatical approach, focusing on individual terms rather than on utterances, that causes names of predicates, the προσηγορίαι, and common nouns to coincide. This results in the creation of the opposite εἶδος of ὄνομα κύριον, which again stems from the polarization of an Aristotelian concept.