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This book considers the issue of the formal character of medieval logic and aims at clarifying in what sense the language it is operating on (and in) is natural or not. The late medieval period is widely acknowledged as one of the most salient moments of the history of logic and semantics. It not only considered logic as a sine qua non condition for scientifi c knowledge, it also begot highly sophisticated theories about both argumentation and language. The last fi fty years of increasingly intense research have brought about an ever more detailed knowledge of these theories. And yet, the questions as to what kind of logic is medieval logic, whether and to what extent it corresponds to our conception of logic, and, even, what the nature of its object was, remain challenging. That it has a formal character is widely accepted; and its semantic components display remarkable affi nities with contemporary ones. But is it formal in the way modern logic is – or believes it is ? Medieval logic does not really make recourse to symbolisms, after all, and the fact that the idea of formal validity might have been born in the twelfth century does not mean that developing formal approaches was an aim of medieval logicians. And what is its semantics a semantics of ? Medieval logicians use Latin to deal with Latin constructions, but do these constructions belong to natural language or are they regimented to the point of forming some sort of ideal language ? The twenty-five papers gathered in this volume deal with these issues, thus allowing to reassess the broader questions of the formal character and formalising ambitions of medieval logic, as well as that of the natural character of the language in (and on) which it operated : in other words, they address the question of the nature, object and purpose of medieval logic.

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Logic, Medieval --- Logique médiévale --- #A0202W --- Logic, Medieval. --- Logique médiévale --- Medieval logic

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" 'De locis dialecticis' is the sixth treatise of John Buridan's 'Summulae dialecticae', a textbook he wrote for his logic course in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris. 'De locis dialecticis' builds upon Peter of Spain, but Buridan shows his awareness that the doctrine of the 'loci' took its origin in Boethius' 'De differentiis topicis', and he frequently quotes from that work. Though not introducing any basically new ideas Buridan contributes a large number of precisions to the standard descriptions of the several 'loci', and he shows that the list of the 'loci' and the traditional division of it into three sections is not something given by nature, but was established by earlier logicians, as they found convenient. Accordingly such things can be changed if something better is found. Buridan has given us perhaps the most precise and interesting exposition of the doctrine of the 'loci' in the medieval logical literature." -- Back cover.

Logic [Medieval ] --- Logica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Logique médiévale --- Medieval logic --- Middeleeuwse logica --- Logic, Medieval. --- Buridan, Jean --- Logic --- Early works to 1800

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