The only text Anselm wrote about dialectal matters current at the time of writing (immediately after Monologion and Proslogion, circa 1080) is also the only one that does not have a title of its own and must be referred to by the incipit, that is, De grammatico... According to the author, the text constitutes a useful introduction to dialectics (non inutilem ut puto introducendis ad dialecticam, cuius ini- tium est De grammatico). This is enough evidence to establish the relevance this treatise …
Read moreThe only text Anselm wrote about dialectal matters current at the time of writing (immediately after Monologion and Proslogion, circa 1080) is also the only one that does not have a title of its own and must be referred to by the incipit, that is, De grammatico... According to the author, the text constitutes a useful introduction to dialectics (non inutilem ut puto introducendis ad dialecticam, cuius ini- tium est De grammatico). This is enough evidence to establish the relevance this treatise may have had for Anselm: very little, since none of the remaining works lacks a title and almost all have a prologue of their own. However, the extensive formal work dedicated by P. Henry in perspective of S. Lesniewsky’s ontology and also the linguistic echoes of the treatment of paronyms or denominatives taken from Prisciano and the vicissitudes of XI century Latin Aristotelianism passed on by Boethius make the consideration of said text commendable.
