Treatise on Consequences /
John Buridan's 'Treatise on Consequences' contains arguably the most important treatment of logical consequence in the middle ages. Buridan was a philosopher and logician working at the University of Paris in the mid-fourteenth century. His works include commentaries on many of Aristo...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Latín |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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Édition: | First edition. |
Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Editorial Introduction
- Book I. Consequences in General and Consequences between Assertoric Propositions. Chapter 1: The Truth and Falsity of Propositions
- Chapter 2: The Causes of the Truth and Falsity of Propositions
- Chapter 3: The Definition of Consequence
- Chapter 4: The Division of Consequences
- Chapter 5: The Supposition of Terms
- Chapter 6: The Ampliation of Terms
- Chapter 7: The Matter and Form of Propositions
- Chapter 8: Conclusions
- Book II. Consequences between Modal Propositions. Chapter 1: Modal Propositions. Chapter 2: The Division of Modal Propositions into Composite and Divided
- Chapter 3: The Division of Divided Modal Propositions into Affirmative and Negative
- Chapter 4: The Ampliation of the Terms of Divided Modal Propositions
- Chapter 5: Equivalences
- Chapter 6: Conclusions about Divided Modals
- Chapter 7: Conclusions about Composite Modals
- Book III. Syllogisms between Assertoric Propositions. Part I: Syllogisms between Propositions Containing Direct Terms. Chapter 1: The Division of Consequences
- Chapter 2: The Syllogism
- Chapter 3: The Division of Terms into Finite and Infinite. Chapter 4: Conclusions
- Part II: Syllogisms between Propositions Containing Oblique Terms. Chapter 1: Propositions Containing Oblique Terms
- Chapter 2: The Syllogistic Extremes and Middle
- Chapter 3: Conclusions
- Book IV. Syllogisms between Modal Propositions. Chapter 1: Syllogisms between Composite Modal Propositions
- Chapter 2: Syllogisms between Divided Propositions of Necessity and Possibility
- Chapter 3: Syllogisms between Divided Modal Propositions of Each- Way Contingency
- Chapter 4: Syllogisms between Reduplicative Propositions
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index