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123Henry of Ghent on Teaching TheologyVivarium 49 (1-3): 165-183. 2011.This paper aims to explain Henry of Ghent's views on what kind of language is appropriate in theology, and why. It concentrates on a number of questions of the Summa quaestionum ordinariarum , which are devoted to his take on how theologians should explain their discipline to students, and to the meaningfulness in general of theological language. The paper delves into the technical terms sensus and insinuare , and compares Henry's account with H.P. Grice's views on (speaker-)meaning and his noti…Read more
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69The unity of semantics and ontology. Wyclif 's treatment of the fallacia accidentisVivarium 46 (1): 24-58. 2008.This paper deals with John Wyclif 's account of the fallacia accidentis. To a certain extent Wyclif 's explanations fit in with Aristotle's understanding of language. Aristotle recognises that we can talk about substances in many different ways; we can introduce them by using 'substantial' names, but also by using names derived from the substances' accidental features. The substances are the ultimate foundation of all these expressions. This idea in itself is not opposed to a conceptualist accou…Read more
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58Die syncategoremata Des Wilhelm Von Sherwood. Kommentierung und historische einordnung. Studien und texte zur geistesgeschichte Des mittelalters, 98 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (4). 2009.The thirteenth-century treatises on syncategorematic words still form a gold mine for studying the development of logic after Aristotle and Boethius. Generally speaking, the class of words labelled syncategoremata included expressions that, more than their categorematic counterparts, require the context of an expression in order to be meaningful. Nouns and verbs, such as ‘man’ and ‘to run’, were considered as having a more determined meaning than expressions such as ‘every’ or ‘not’. In the earl…Read more
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54The Introductiones Montanae maiores: A Student’s Guide to LogicVivarium 53 (2-4): 249-268. 2015._ Source: _Volume 53, Issue 2-4, pp 249 - 268 The tract on logic that has now become known as the _Introductiones Montanae maiores_ provides us with useful evidence of the kind of education that was on offer in the Parisian schools of the 12th century. In this contribution, I will go through a number of arguments brought up in connection with the definitions of basic logical concepts. By doing so I aim to provide more details about some of the most important theoretical positions of the tract
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54Abstractiones (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (4): 386-387. 2017.In the Middle Ages, a sophisma was taken as a sentence the truth value of which is difficult to determine. The sentences appear to be puzzling or difficult to interpret because of...
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53In de voetsporen van Johannes Duns Scotus. De vrijheid voorbij?Wijsgerig Perspectief 48 (4): 39-47. 2008.Johannes Duns Scotus is begonnen met het onderzoek naar de werkelijkheid als ‘het volstrekt mogelijke’. In Kant zien we een radicale voortzetting van deze beweging, die echter tot een nieuw noodzakelijkheidsdenken heeft geleid. In de theorievorming over het menselijk individu, een onderwerp dat Duns Scotus zeer aan het hart ging, is dat determinisme nog niet overwonnen
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51Summaries of LogicHistory and Philosophy of Logic 36 (4): 399-401. 2015.Peter of Spain's Tractatus, which appeared in a first critical edition by L.M. de Rijk, is a handbook on logic; it is now estimated that it dates from the second quarter of the thirteenth ce...
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51The winged chariot: collected essays on Plato and platonism in honour of L.M. de Rijk (edited book)Brill. 2000.The strong connection between the two and its development into the Middle Ages form a major subject of this volume.Other themes featuring in this book are Plato ...
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44Consequence and ‘Cause’: Thirteenth-Century Reflections on the Nature of ConsequencesVivarium 56 (3-4): 320-339. 2018._ Source: _Volume 56, Issue 3-4, pp 320 - 339 Thirteenth-century views on consequences have not yet received much attention. Authors of this period deserve closer scrutiny, because of their profound interest in the nature of consequence. The fundamental feature of a consequence was captured in the claim that its antecedent is the cause of its consequent. At the same time authors systematically discussed consequences in terms of truth-preservation. This paper considers the requirements of syllogi…Read more
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39Gerald Odonis on the notion of esse tertio adiacensIn Lambertus Marie de Rijk, William Duba & Christopher David Schabel (eds.), Gerald Odonis, Doctor Moralis and Franciscan minister general: studies in honour of L.M. de Rijk, Brill. pp. 221-240. 2009.Gerald Odonis' logic is generous in its acceptance of ontological counterparts of linguistic expressions. He claims that universals have an objective status and are independent of our mental operations. This article takes a closer look at his views on the meaning of what he calls esse tertio adiacens, i.e., the type of being expressed in propositions of the form 'S is P'. To a certain extent Odonis' analysis resembles Peter of Spain's account of compositio. Unlike his predecessor, however, Odoni…Read more
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36Gerald Odonis on the Notion of esse tertio adiacensVivarium 47 (2-3): 221-240. 2009.Gerald Odonis' logic is generous in its acceptance of ontological counterparts of linguistic expressions. He claims that universals have an objective status and are independent of our mental operations. This article takes a closer look at his views on the meaning of what he calls esse tertio adiacens, i.e., the type of being expressed in propositions of the form 'S is P'. To a certain extent Odonis' analysis resembles Peter of Spain's account of compositio. Unlike his predecessor, however, Odoni…Read more
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33Thomas Bradwardine. Insolubilia. Edited and translated by, Stephen Read. viii + 235 pp., apps., index. Paris/Leuven: Peeters, 2010. €39 (review)Isis 103 (3): 573-573. 2012.
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29To Learn to Think Orderly. Henry of Ghent on the Fundaments of EducationTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 75 (1): 63-89. 2013.This contribution discusses the views of the medieval theologian Henry of Ghent on the role of the teacher in the acquisition of knowledge. According to Henry, teaching is basically aimed at assisting a pupil in his acquisition of truth. In teaching, the role of language as the vehicle of truth is crucial: in order to acquire knowledge one needs to think correctly, and the only way to learn how to think correctly is through a correct use of language. After presenting an analysis of Henry’s ideas…Read more
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23Logica modernorumAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 113 (2): 249-262. 2021.Logica modernorum. A critical note on Habermas’s portrait of medieval philosophy In his monumental history of philosophy, the eminent scholar Jürgen Habermas has managed to provide us with a thorough and very nuanced overview of thousands of years of western thought. The famous philosopher paints an impressive picture of the vicissitudes of the modernisation processes featuring in the history of western philosophy. The Leitmotiv of Habermas’s narrative is the way in which throughout history phil…Read more
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15Anonymi introductiones montane maiores (edited book)Peeters. 2017.It has been a long time ago since Professor De Rijk first drew our attention to an important Parisian manuscript containing two treatises on logic, both connected with the School of the 'Montani'. The school was established in the twelfth century on the Mont Sainte Genevieve (which is situated in what is nowadays known as the Quartier Latin). It was dominated by master Alberic (Albericus) of Paris. The 'Montani' were the heirs (faithful or not) of Pierre Abelard, Robert of Melun and this master …Read more
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9Syncategoreumata (edited book)Brill. 1950.The first critical edition of the Syncategoreumata by the thirteenth-century philosopher Peter of Spain , accompanied by a facing-page English translation to make its contents accessible to modern readers. The introduction gives an account of all the manuscripts used for the edition. Extensive indexes have been added to facilitate the reader's orientation in the book
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9Logica Morelli (edited book)Brepols Publishers. 2004.This volume contains the first critical edition of a Spanish textbook on logic, found in the libraries of Sevilla and Zaragoza. It has tentatively been given the title Logica Morelli, taken from the title found in the Zaragoza copy. The author of this work, who perhaps went by the name Morellus, is as yet unknown. It seems likely that the work originates from the second half of the fifteenth century. It is structured in accordance with academic practice in Spain of that period, and bears a close…Read more
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Gerardus Odonis on the UniversalArchives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen Âge 63 171-208. 1996.In a small tract by Master Gerardus Odonis, found in the MSS Madrid, Bibl. Nac. 4229, ff. 204ra-207vb and Madrid, Bibl. Univ. 65, ff. 113ra-117va, which has the provisional title De natura universalis, attention is paid to the definition, the origin and the ontological status of the universal. Odonis is totally against the moderns' view that universals have a mental existence only. Instead he holds a view similar to that of Henry of Ghent : universals have the being of an essence and are the bas…Read more
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Semantiek en pragmatiek in de middeleeuwse taalfilosofie: Thomas van Aquino en Hendrik van Gent en het spreken over GodAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 95 (2): 111-124. 2003.
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John Buridan on negation and the understanding of non-beingIn Egbert P. Bos & H. A. Krop (eds.), John Buridan, a master of arts: some aspects of his philosophy: acts of the second symposium organized by the Dutch Society for Medieval Philosophy Medium Aevum on the occasion of its 15th anniversary, Leiden-Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit), 20-21 June, 19, Ingenium Publishers. 1993.
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Matthew of Orléans: Sophistaria Sive Summa Communium Distinctionum Circa Sophismata Accidentium (edited book)Brill. 2000.This critical edition of Matthew of Orléans' Sophistaria contains valuable information about the author's views on matters of ontology, modality, natural philosophy, and theology, and gives us a clear outline of the way in which thirteenth-century authors approached these subjects in works of logic
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