Medieval Supposition Theory Revisited

by Brill

Overview

In 1962–1967 Professor L.M. de Rijk published his Logica Modernorum – A Contribution to the History of Early Terminist Logic. The first part (1962) has the title: On the Twelfth Century Theories of Fallacy. The second part (two volumes, 1967) has as title: The Origin and the Early Development of the Theory of Supposition. De Rijk’s Logica Modernorum provides the basis for the modern study of medieval theories of supposition.
Now, nearly 50 years later, scholars have made great progress in the study of the properties of terms. De Rijk’s study was primarily about the early development of terminist logic, i.e. during the 12th and 13th centuries. Scholars have also investigated later developments well into the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Not only logical texts, but also texts on grammar have been published. Many of the scholars who have contributed to this development, present papers in this volume.
Contributors are Fabrizio Amerini, Jenny Ashworth, Allan Bäck, Bert Bos, Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, Laurent Cesalli, Lambert Marie de Rijk, Sten Ebbesen, Alessandro Conti, Catarina Dutilh-Novaes, Onno Kneepkens, Costantino Marmo, Dafne Mure, Claude Panaccio, Ernesto Perini Santos, Joel Lonfat, Angel d’Ors, Göran Sundholm and Luisa Valente.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004259836
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/15/2013
Pages:	554
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Egbert P. Bos, Ph. D. (1980), Leiden University, the editor of this volume, is emeritus Professor of Medieval Logic and Semantics at that university. He has published text-editions and articles on medieval logic and semantics, especially of tracts of the fourteenth century.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction E.P. Bos B.G. Sundholm 3

Early Supposition Theory in General

Semantics and Ontology. An Assessment of Medieval Terminism L.M. De Rijk 13

Early Supposition Theory II Sten Ebbesen 60

Arabic Philosophy

Avicenna's Theory of Supposition Allan Bäck 81

XIIth Century

Supposition Theory and Porretan Theology: Summa Zwettlensis and Dialogus Ratii et Everardi Luisa Valente 119

XIIIth Century

Supposition and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech in the Abstractiones Mary Sirridge 147

The Role of Discrete Terms in the Theory of the Properties of Terms Julie Brumberg-Chaumont 169

Suppositum between Logic and Metaphysics: Simon of Faversham and his Contemporaries (1270-1290) Dafne Murè 205

XIVth Century

Scotus on Supposition Costantino Marmo 233

Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian Logic Simo Knuuttila 260

Richard Brinkley on Supposition Laurent Cesalli 275

Semantic and Ontological Aspects of Wyclif's Theory of Supposition Alessandro D. Conti 304

Thomas Aquinas and Some Italian Dominicans (Francis of Prato, Georgius Rovegnatinus and Girolamo Savonarola) on Signification and Supposition Fabkizio Amerini 327

The Role of 'Denotatur' in Ockham's Theory of Supposition Catarina Dutilh Novaes 352

Ockham and Buridan on Simple Supposition Claude Panaccio 371

Descent and Ascent from Ockham to Domingo de Soto: An Answer to Paul Spade E. Jennifer Ashworth 385

When the Inference 'p is true, therefore p' Fails: John Buridan on the Evaluation of Propositions Ernesto Perini-Santos 411

XV-XVI-XVIIth Centuries

Logic in Salamanca in the Fifteenth Century. The Tractatus suppositionum terminorum by Master Franquera Angel D' Ors 427

The Hermeneutical Rehabilitation of Supposition Theory in Seventeenth-Century Protestant Logic Stephan Meier-Oeser 464

Logic: Medieval and Modern

A Quantified Temporal Logic for Ampliation and Restriction Sara L. Uckelman 485

The Expressive Power of Medieval Logic Terry Parsons 511

Index 523