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5William of Sherwood: Syncategoremata (edited book)F. Meiner, Phb 628. 2012.Synkategorematische Sprachzeichen bilden ein zentrales Thema der Logik, Sprachphilosophie, Linguistik und Grammatik von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Im Mittelalter verstand man unter "syncategoremata "Ausdrücke, denen eine besondere Bedeutung für die logische Analyse von Aussagen und Schlüssen zukommt. Zu den Synkategoremata zählte eine relativ eng begrenzte Gruppe von Wörtern wie etwa die distributiven Zeichen ("jeder", "kein"), die Exklusiva ("allein", "nur"), Konjunktionen wie "und", "oder" …Read more
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1Supposition and properties of termsIn Catarina Dutilh Novaes & Stephen Read (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic, Cambridge University Press. pp. 220-244. 2016.
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Terminology and Etymology in Medieval LogicIn Jacqueline Hamesse & Carlos G. Steel (eds.), L’ Élaboration du Vocabulaire Philosophique au Moyen Âge, Brepols Publishers. pp. 489--509. 2000.
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144Medieval Logic as a Formal Science. A SurveyIn Benedikt Löwe, Boris Piwinger & Thoralf Räsch (eds.), Foundations of the Formal Sciences Iv. The History of the Concept of the Formal Sciences, . pp. 103--123. 2006.The paper discusses in how far medieval logic can appropriately be characterized as a formal science. In this respect, the special mediecal approach to logic as a scientia sermocinalis is examined as well as its main doctrines, namely the theories of supposition and of consequences, and the famous characterization of logic as an ars artium or scientia scientiarum. It is pointed out that medieval logic is not devoted to the setting up of formal systems or any metalogical analysis of formal struct…Read more
University of Cologne
PhD, 1991