Articulating Medieval Logic

Terence Parsons presents a new study of the development and continuing value of medieval logic, which expanded Aristotle's basic principles of logic in important ways. Parsons argues that the resulting system is as rich as contemporary first-order symbolic logic.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: An Overview of Aristotelian Logic as seen by Medieval Logicians


• 2: Aristotle's Proofs of Conversions and Syllogisms


• 3: Quantifying Predicates, Singular Term Predicates, Negative Terms


• 4: Linguish


• 5: Expanding the Notation


• 6: Some Illustrative Topics


• 7: Modes of Personal Supposition


• 8: Relatives (Anaphoric Words)


• 9: Comparison of Medieval Logic with Contemporary Logic


• 10: Ampliation and Restriction


• Appendix: Artificial Quantifiers in Early 16th Century Logic


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Terence Parsons was born and raised in Endicott, New York. He attended the University of Rochester as a physics major, receiving a BA degree. He received a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University. He was a full time faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1965 to 1972, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1972 to 1979, at the University of California at Irvine from 1979 to 2000, and at the University of California at Los Angeles from 2000 to 2012. He also visited briefly at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pittsburgh.

Summary

Terence Parsons presents a new study of the development and continuing value of medieval logic, which expanded Aristotle's basic principles of logic in important ways. Parsons argues that the resulting system is as rich as contemporary first-order symbolic logic.

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Product details

• Authors: Terence Parsons, Terence (University of California At Los Parsons, Parsons Terence
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199688845
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968884-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy