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Robert Kilwardby's science of logic : a thirteenth-century intensional logic

Title
Robert Kilwardby's science of logic : a thirteenth-century intensional logic / by Paul Thom.
Author
Thom, Paul
Publication
  • Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Book/textUse in library JFE 20-5847Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Series Statement
Investigating Medieval Philosophy, 1879-9787 ; volume 14
Uniform Title
Investigating medieval philosophy ; v. 14.
Subject
  • Kilwardby, Robert, -1279
  • Logic, Medieval
  • Logic > Early works to 1800
  • Science, Medieval
  • Logicians
Genre/Form
  • Early works.
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and indexes.
Call Number
JFE 20-5847
ISBN
  • 9789004408463
  • 9004408460
  • 9789004408777 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019287113
OCLC
1101259579
Author
Thom, Paul, author.
Title
Robert Kilwardby's science of logic : a thirteenth-century intensional logic / by Paul Thom.
Publisher
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Description
xvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Investigating Medieval Philosophy, 1879-9787 ; volume 14
Investigating medieval philosophy ; v. 14.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-306) and indexes.
Summary
Paul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on "that in virtue of which" the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains the logic of genus and species through the notion of essence. Thom interprets this science as a formal logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardby's logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century.
Research Call Number
JFE 20-5847
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