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7 - The Post- Medieval Period
- from PART I - PERIODS AND TRADITIONS
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- By E. Jennifer Ashworth, University of Waterloo (Canada)
- Edited by Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Stephen Read, University of St Andrews, Scotland
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- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
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- 05 September 2016
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- 12 September 2016, pp 166-192
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Making a clear division between the medieval and the post-medieval periods is impossible, especially if the end of the fourteenth century is taken as a cut-off point. The next century and a half certainly embraced big and important changes in the study of logic, but the new humanist developments were contemporary with continued work in the areas thought of as specifically medieval, such as supposition theory, and indeed there was a flowering of medieval logic in early-sixteenth-century Paris with the work of such men as John Mair (or Major). However, by the mid-sixteenth century, specifically medieval developments had largely died out, leaving behind only fragments of supposition theory and some simplified work on consequences. Aristotle's logic continued to be centrally important throughout the period, but the approach to it came to be very different from that of the Middle Ages. The Greek text of Organon was widely available by the end of the fifteenth century, and could be studied by senior students and teachers, but the main undergraduate teaching came to be done largely through elementary textbooks that summarized Aristotelian logic in simpler language and without the lengthy doctrinal discussions and illustrative sophismata that had characterized many medieval commentaries.
This chapter has two main parts. The first part discusses the effects that historical events and movements had on educational systems and the logical studies thought to be suitable for undergraduates. The Western reception of the printing press in the middle of the fifteenth century was perhaps the most important event, for it accentuated the impact of the other events and movements. Suddenly it became possible to produce books cheaply, in relatively large numbers, and without the differences between one copy and another that often make work with manuscripts so difficult. By the end of the fifteenth century, many university towns had presses able to print the textbooks needed by the faculty of Arts, and teachers could disseminate their own works. Moreover, publishers, especially in Italy, were able to print the works required for serious scholarship, such as Aristotle's Organon in Greek and the newly discovered Greek commentaries on Aristotle, while in the sixteenth century, the writings of the Protestant reformers and their Roman Catholic opponents could be widely circulated.
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- Edited by Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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11 - Terminist logic
- from II - Logic and language
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- By E. Jennifer Ashworth, University of Waterloo
- Edited by Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado Boulder
- Edited in association with Christina van Dyke, Calvin College, Michigan
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- The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
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- 05 August 2014
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- 19 June 2014, pp 146-158
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Terminist logic is a specifically medieval development. It is named from its focus on terms as the basic unit of logical analysis, and so it includes both supposition theory, together with its ramifications, and the treatment of syncategorematic terms. It also includes other areas of investigation not directly linked with Aristotelian texts, notably obligations, consequences, and insolubles (see Chapters 10, 13, and 14).
Logic was at the heart of the arts curriculum, for it provided the techniques of analysis and much of the vocabulary found in philosophical, scientific, and theological writing. Moreover, it trained students for participation in the disputations that were a central feature of medieval instruction, and whose structure, with arguments for and against a thesis, followed by a resolution, is reflected in many written works. This practical application affected the way in which logic developed. While medieval thinkers had a clear idea of argumentation as involving formal structures, they were not interested in the development of formal systems, and they did not see logic as in any way akin to mathematics. Logic involved the study of natural language, albeit a natural language (Latin) that was often regimented to make formal points, and it had a straightforwardly cognitive orientation. The purpose of logic was to separate the true from the false by means of argument, and to lead from known premises to a previously unknown conclusion. In this process, the avoidance of error was crucial, so there was a heavy emphasis on the making of distinctions and on the detection of fallacies. The procedures involved often have the appearance of being ad hoc, and modern attempts to draw precise parallels between medieval theories as a whole and the results of contemporary symbolic logic are generally doomed to failure, even though there are many fruitful partial correlations.
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- By E. Jennifer Ashworth, J. L. Berggren, Charles Burnett, Joan Cadden, Bruce S. Eastwood, Edward Grant, Danielle Jacquart, Elaheh Kheirandish, Tomomi Kinukawa, Walter Roy Laird, Y. Tzvi Langermann, David C. Lindberg, Stephen C. McCcluskey, A. George Molland, Robert G. Morrison, William R. Newman, John North, Vivian Nutton, George Ovitt, Katharine Park, F. Jamil Ragep, Karen Meier Reeds, Emilie Savage-Smith, Michael H. Shank, Katherine H. Tachau, Anne Tihon, David Woodward
- David C. Lindberg, Michael H. Shank
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22 - Logic
- David C. Lindberg, Michael H. Shank
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- 07 October 2013, pp 532-547
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Medieval thinkers took a science to be an organized body of certain knowledge that might include theology, logic, and grammar as well as mathematics and physics. Medieval logic has to be seen against the background of the split of the Roman Empire into the Latin-speaking, Catholic West and the Greek-speaking, Orthodox East. The most important of Aristotle's logical works for the history of science is his Posterior Analytics. Roger Bacon's Summule was the first general textbook to contain a full section on the demonstrative syllogism. Medieval logic is characterized by a new technique, the analysis and solution of sophismata. Medieval logicians employed the notion of signification as their basic semantic notion. Supposition theory dealt with the subject and predicate terms in propositions, albeit in relation to other terms. Treatises on syncategoremata dealt with all these other terms, such as all, some, or not, that appear in a proposition and exercise some logical function.
Ockham on ConceptsClaude Panaccio Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004, vii + 197 pp.
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- Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie / Volume 45 / Issue 4 / Fall 2006
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- 27 April 2009, pp. 785-787
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THE PERILS OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE - Hannah Dawson: Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 361. $96.00.)
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- The Review of Politics / Volume 70 / Issue 3 / Summer 2008
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- 21 July 2008, pp. 490-492
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