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84Synonymy and equivocation in ockham's mental languageJournal of the History of Philosophy 18 (1): 9-22. 1980.A textual and philosophical study of the claim that according to ockham there is no synonymy or equivocation in mental language. It is argued that ockham is committed to both claims, Either explicitly or in virtue of other features of his doctrine. Nevertheless, Both claims lead to difficulties for ockham's theory
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37"Averroes' Middle Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretation", translated by Charles E. Butterworth (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 117. 1986.
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R. BRITO "Quaestiones super Priscianum minorem" (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 2 (n/a): 133. 1981.
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46William heytesbury's position on "insolubles": One possible sourceVivarium 14 (2): 114-120. 1976.
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15On a conservative attitude toward some naive semantic principlesNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 16 (4): 597-602. 1975.
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56The Warp and Woof of Metaphysics. 2009.Let me begin then by introducing you to a distinction between what I will call a broadly “Platonic”-style and a broadly “Aristotelian”-style metaphysics. The guiding thread will be the notion of the essential and non-essential (accidental) features of a thing. Perhaps you will find what I am here calling an “Aristotelian” view unfamiliar and even foreign, because there is a kind of metaphysical “common denominator” in some philosophical circles today, left-over perhaps from the days of “analytic…Read more
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30John Marenbon, "From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre: Logic, Theology, and Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 21 (1): 98. 1983.
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65seem to be a kind of corruption of the elements and not a mixture. Again, if the substantial form of a mixed body is the act of matter without presupposing the forms of simple bodies, then the simple bodies of the elements will lose their definition (rationem). For an element is that of which something is primarily composed, and exists in it and is indivisible ac-.
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26Three theories of obligationes: Burley, Kilvington and Swyneshed on Counterfactual ReasoningHistory and Philosophy of Logic 3 (1): 1-32. 1982.This paper defends the thesis that the mediaeval genre of logical treatises De obligatiombus contained a theoretical account of counterfacutal reasoning, perhaps the first such account in the history of philosophy. This interpretation helps to explain some of the theoretical disputes in the obligationes literature in the first half of the fourteenth century. Section 1 is introductory. Section 2 presents Walter Burley's theory, while section 3 argues for the counterfactual interpretation of oblig…Read more
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151Apart from his Consolation of Philosophy, perhaps the most well known text of Boethius is his discussion of universals in the Second Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge.1 In that passage, he first reviews the arguments for and against the existence of universal entities, and then offers a theory he attributes to Alexander of Aphrodisias, a kind of theory called in recent times “moderate realism,” according to which there are no universal entities in the ontology of the world, but nevertheless there…Read more
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1Anselm and the Background to Adam Wodeham's Theory of Abstract and Concrete TermsRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 43 (2): 261-271. 1988.
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12Priority of Analysis and the Predicates of "O"-form SentencesFranciscan Studies 36 (1): 263-270. 1976.
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16On "Insoluble" Sentences. Chapter One of Rules for Solving SophismsPhilosophical Quarterly 31 (122): 70. 1981.
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7Notes on Richard Lavenham's So-Called "Summulae Logicales," with a Partial Edition of the TextFranciscan Studies 40 (1): 370-407. 1980.
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16The Treatises On Modal Propositions and On Hypothetical Propositions by Richard LavenhamMediaeval Studies 35 (1): 49-59. 1973.
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13The mediaeval liar: a catalogue of the insolubilia-literaturePontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. 1975.
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22Do composers have to be performers too?Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (4): 365-369. 1991.
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34Some Epistemological Implications of the Burley-Ockham DisputeFranciscan Studies 35 (1): 212-222. 1976.
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30A note on truth and security for modal and quantificational paradoxesPhilosophical Studies 29 (3). 1976.
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71What is a proof for the existence of God?International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (4). 1975.
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V. FERRER "Tractatus de suppositionibus" (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 2 (n/a): 137. 1981.
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