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  title info:
    title: Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories
    sub title: Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes
  name:
    name part: Dutilh Novaes, Catarina.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 316 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence and obligations. In an additional fourth part, an in-depth analysis of the concept of formalization is presented – a crucial concept in the current logical panorama, which as such receives surprisingly little attention. Although formalizations of medieval logical theories have been proposed earlier in the literature, the formalizations presented here are all based on innovative vantage points: supposition theories as algorithmic hermeneutics, theories of consequence analyzed with tools borrowed from model-theory and two-dimensional semantics, and obligations as logical games. For this reason, this is perhaps the first time that these medieval logical theories are made fully accessible to the modern philosopher and logician who wishes to obtain a better grasp of them, but who has always been held back by the lack of appropriate ‘translations’ into modern terms. Moreover, the book offers a reflection on the very nature of logic, a reflection that is prompted by the comparisons between medieval and modern logic, their similarities and dissimilarities. It is thus a contribution not only to the history of logic, but also to the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language and semantics. The analysis of medieval logic is also relevant for the modern philosopher and logician in that, being the unifying methodology used across all disciplines at that time, logic really provided unity to science. It thus presents a unified model of scientific investigation, where logic plays the aggregating role.
  table of contents: Supposition Theory: Algorithmic Hermeneutics -- Buridan's Notion of Consequentia -- Obligationes as Logical Games -- The Philosophy of Formalization.
  note: by Catarina Dutilh Novaes.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Medieval philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  classification: BC1-199
  classification: 160
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science ; 7
  identifier: 9781402058530
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5853-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152951.0
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