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65John BuridanOxford University Press. 2009.Buridan's life, works, and influence -- Buridan's logic and the medieval logical tradition -- The primacy of mental language -- The various kinds of concepts and the idea of a mental language -- Natural language and the idea of a formal syntax in Buridan -- Existential import and the square of opposition -- Ontological commitment -- The properties of terms (proprietates terminorum) -- The semantics of propositions -- Logical validity in a token-based, semantically closed logic -- The possibility…Read more
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39The Semantic Principles Underlying St. Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of BeingMedieval Philosophy & Theology 5 (1): 87-141. 1996.
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919Three Myths of Intentionality Versus Some Medieval PhilosophersInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 21 (3): 359-376. 2013.This paper argues that three characteristic modern positions concerning intentionality – namely, (1) that intentionality is ‘the mark of the mental’; (2) that intentionality concerns a specific type of objects having intentional inexistence; and (3) that intentionality somehow defies logic – are just three ‘modern myths’ that medieval philosophers, from whom the modern notion supposedly originated, would definitely reject.
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89“The expression ‘free logic’ is an abbreviation for the phrase ‘free of existence assumptions with respect to its terms, general and singular’.”1 Classical quantification theory is not a free logic in this sense, as its standard formulations commonly assume that every singular term in every model is assigned a referent, an element of the universe of discourse. Indeed, since singular terms include not only singular constants, but also variables2, standard quantification theory may be regarded as …Read more
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11Sophistaria sive summa communium distinctionum circa sophismata accidentium (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 41 (2): 272-273. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 41.2 (2003) 272-273 [Access article in PDF] Matthew of Orléans. Sophistaria sive summa communium distinctionum circa sophismata accidentium. Edited by Joke Spruyt. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. ix + 581. Cloth, $151.00. Matthew of Orléans is not a famous author (indeed, even his name is given tentatively by the editor on the basis of the explicit of one manuscript). And the Sophistaria was apparently n…Read more
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20A Treatise of Master Hervaeus Natalis: On Second Intentions. Edited and translated by John P. Doyle (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 54 (2): 235-237. 2014.
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Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy |
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Intentionality |
Semantic Theories |