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128Frege’s Ancestral and Its CircularitiesLogica Universalis 6 (3-4): 477-483. 2012.After presenting the ordinary and the Fregean formulations of the ancestral, I raise the question of what is their relationship, the natural candidate being that the Fregean version is an analysans intended to improve upon, and replace, the common notion of ancestral (the analysandum). Next, two types of circles that arise in connection with the Fregean ancestral are presented, and it is claimed that one of the circles makes it impossible to maintain the just described (“replacement”) interpreta…Read more
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112The techniques of disputation in the history of logicJournal of Philosophy 67 (20): 800-815. 1970.
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102Adventures of abstractionPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 82 (1): 11-35. 2004.
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84On identity and interchangeability in Leibniz and FregeNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 8 (1-2): 94-100. 1967.
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79From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (1): 138-139. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.1 (2003) 138-139 [Access article in PDF] Erich H. Reck, editor. From Frege to Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 470. Cloth, $65.00. The volume is divided into four main parts: I: "Background and general themes," II: "Frege," III: "Frege to early Wittgenstein," and IV: "Early Wittgenstein." Part I includes the following ess…Read more
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66Studies on Gottlob Frege and traditional philosophy (edited book)D. Reidel. 1967.I wish to express, first of all, my profound gratitude to Professor J. M. Bochenski, without whose assistance the present work would have not been possible. To be concise, I would like to state that his contribution to this book may be viewed at three levels: (1) that of the general spirit, (2) that of the specific ideas, theses or approaches which are expressed in its pages, (3) that of this work qua doctoral dissertation. The general spirit which has guided my research coincides with that unde…Read more
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62Review: G. E. Hughes, John Buridan on Self-Reference. Chapter Eight of Buridan's Sophismata, with a Translation, an Introduction, and a Philosophical Commentary (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 50 (3): 859-860. 1985.
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52The doctrine of propositions and termsJournal of the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 244-246. 1980.
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52Analytica priora I, 38 and Reduplication (review)Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 19 (2): 295-296. 1978.
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43Three Logicians (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (4): 926-929. 1983.The author distinguishes three views of negation: 1) term-negation ; 2) predicate-negation ; 3) sentence-negation. Strictly, however, he thinks there is no genuine sentential negation; sentential negation is reducible to the denial of a predicate. The author claims to have shown this in the present book. If sentential negation is regarded as "external" and predicate negation as "internal" to sentences, the reduction of sentential negation to predicate negation is an "internalization" of negation…Read more
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35Marcel Boll and Jacques Reinhart. Histoire de la logique. Que sais-je, no. 225, 5th edn. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris1961, 127 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 31 (2): 285-286. 1966.
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30Logica Magna (review)Review of Metaphysics 38 (2): 399-400. 1984.This volume contains a critical edition and English translation of the Latin text of the twenty-second treatise of part 1 of Paul of Venice's Logica Magna, De Scire et dubitare, "On Knowing and Being Uncertain." The issue of the treatise is "whether something known by someone is uncertain to him or not known to him". Paul of Venice presents about thirty arguments aimed at showing that indeed there are propositions that one both knows and is uncertain about. Let us take a look at the first three …Read more
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28Hans-Dieter Sluga. Frege und die Typentheorie. Eine historische Untersuchung. Logik und Logikkalkül, edited by Max Käsbauer and Franz von Kutschera, Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg and Munich1962, pp. 195–209 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 32 (1): 107-108. 1967.
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26Buonarroti, Michelangelo 284In W. Huemer & B. Centi (eds.), Value and Ontology, Ontos-verlag. pp. 293. 2009.
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25Three Logicians (review)Review of Metaphysics 36 (4): 926-929. 1983.The author distinguishes a "term logic," where terms are the fundamental units, and a "sentential logic," where sentences are the fundamental units. Although this technical distinction is presented by Englebretsen as a war-like opposition throughout the entire history of logic, he reassures us that "no blood has been spilled". In recent times, the term-logic party has been eclipsed by the sentential-logic band; term logic is nowadays "almost mute". Only F. Sommers appears to proclaim the truth o…Read more
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25Leibniz's Misunderstanding of Nizolius Notion of 'multitudo'Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 6 (4): 319-322. 1965.
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25Phänomenologie (review)Review of Metaphysics 47 (2): 360-362. 1993.This is a doctoral dissertation submitted in Utrecht in 1991. The four main parts of the text are preceded by a substantial introduction, and followed by a very important bibliography. In spite of classifying his work as belonging in the type of research called Begriffsgeschichte, the author tells us that he has done a history of the term "phenomenology" rather than of the concept of phenomenology. To justify this, Bokhove quotes Rothacker: "Terms and problems have a history. Not properly the co…Read more
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25The Troubled History of AbstractionHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 8 (1): 157-175. 2005.
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