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38Walter Burley and the Obligationes attributed to William of SherwoodHistory and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 9-26. 1983.The history of the mediaeval obligationes-literature has only recently begun to be studied. Two important treatises in this literature, one by Walter Burley and the other attributed to William of Sherwood, have been edited by Romuald Green in a forthcoming book. But there is considerable doubt concerning the authenticity of the text attributed to Sherwood. The correct attribution and dating of this treatise is crucial for our understanding of the history of this literature. In this paper, we arg…Read more
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25Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, OckhamHackett Publishing. 1994.New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in an affordable edition suitable for use in courses in mediaeval philosophy, history of mediaeval philosophy, and universals. Includes a concise Introduction, glossary of important terms, notes, and bibliography.
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25Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period. By E.J. Ashworth. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1974. Pp. xvi, 304. $39.00 (review)Dialogue 15 (2): 333-340. 1976.
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16Ockham on Terms of First and Second Imposition and Intention, with Remarks on the Liar ParadoxVivarium 19 (n/a): 47. 1981.
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20(1) Assuming the significates of non-complex terms, in this treatise I intend to investigate certain properties of terms, [properties] that are applicable to them only insofar as they are parts of propositions. (2) Now I divide this tract into three parts. The first is about the supposition of terms, the second about appellation, and the third about copulation. Supposition belongs to the subject, appellation to the predicate. Copula-.
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591 There have been several editions of Fridugisus’ letter. I have consulted those in Jaques-Paul Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus … series latina, 221 vols., (Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1844–1864), vol. 105, cols. 751–756; Francesco Corvino, “Il ‘De nihilo et tenebris’ di Fredegiso di Tours,” Rivista critica di storia della filosofia (1956), pp. 273–286; and the most recent and authoritative edition, in Concettina Gennaro, Fridugiso di Tours e il “De substantia nihili et tenebrarum”: Edizione critica…Read more
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42divinity in reference to substance or in some other way; and I judge that a path of inquiry should be taken from that place which is agreed to be the clear starting point of all affairs, that is from the very foundations of the catholic faith. So, if I should ask whether He who is called Father is a substance, the response would be that He is a substance. But if I should ask whether the Son is a substance, the response would be the same. And no one..
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104Walter Burley on the simple supposition of singular termsTopoi 16 (1): 7-13. 1997.This paper argues that Burley's theory of simple supposition is not as it has usually been presented. The prevailing view is that Burley and other authors agreed that simple supposition was in every case supposition for a universal, and that the disagreement over simple supposition between, say, Ockham and Burley was merely a disagreement over what a universal was (a piece of the ontology? a concept?), combined with a separate disagreement over what terms signify (the speaker's thoughts? the obj…Read more
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The semantics of termsIn Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny & Jan Pinborg (eds.), Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 1982.
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21The logic of "Sit Verum" in Richard Brinkley and William of ockhamFranciscan Studies 54 (1): 227-250. 1994.
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84Synonymy and equivocation in ockham's mental languageJournal of the History of Philosophy 18 (1): 9-22. 1980.A textual and philosophical study of the claim that according to ockham there is no synonymy or equivocation in mental language. It is argued that ockham is committed to both claims, Either explicitly or in virtue of other features of his doctrine. Nevertheless, Both claims lead to difficulties for ockham's theory
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41I am preparing an English translation of both the Tractatus longior and the Tractatus brevior of Walter Burley’s De puritate artis logicae for the “Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy.” My translation is based of course on the 1955 critical edition by Philotheus Boehner, the only reasonably reliable text available. Nevertheless, in preparing my translation, I have had several occasions to question or correct readings in Boehner’s edition. In some instances the corrections are merely obvious typo…Read more
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46William heytesbury's position on "insolubles": One possible sourceVivarium 14 (2): 114-120. 1976.
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37"Averroes' Middle Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretation", translated by Charles E. Butterworth (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 117. 1986.
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R. BRITO "Quaestiones super Priscianum minorem" (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 2 (n/a): 133. 1981.
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56The Warp and Woof of Metaphysics. 2009.Let me begin then by introducing you to a distinction between what I will call a broadly “Platonic”-style and a broadly “Aristotelian”-style metaphysics. The guiding thread will be the notion of the essential and non-essential (accidental) features of a thing. Perhaps you will find what I am here calling an “Aristotelian” view unfamiliar and even foreign, because there is a kind of metaphysical “common denominator” in some philosophical circles today, left-over perhaps from the days of “analytic…Read more
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