Meaning and Inference in Medieval Philosophy Studies in Memory of Ja
The studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg. His unexpected death in 1982 at the age of forty-five shocked and saddened students of medieval philosophy everywhere and left them with a keen sense
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SYNTHESE HISTORICAL LIBRARY TEXTS AND STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
Editors: N. KRETZMANN, Cornell University
G. NUCHELMANS, University of Leyden
Editorial Board: J. BERG, Munich Institute of Technology L. M. DE RIJK, University of Leyden D. P. HENRY, University of Manchester J. HINTIKKA, Florida State University, Tallahassee
B. MATES, University of California, Berkeley J. E. MURDOCH, Harvard University G. PA TZIG, University of Gottingen
VOLUME 32
MEANING AND INFERENCE IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Studies in Memory of Jan Pinborg
Edited by NORMAN KRETZMANN Cornell University, Ithaca, Us.A.
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON
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Meaning and inference in medieval philosophy: studies in memory of Jan Pinborg I edited by Norman Kretzmann. p. cm. -- (Synthese historical 1 ibrary ; v. 32) Bibl iography: p. Inc 1udes index.
ISBN-l3: 978-94-010-7778-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-009-2843-5
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-009-2843-5
1. LogIC. Medieval. 2. SemantIcs (PhIlosophy) 3. Language and logIc. 4. Pinborg. Jan. I. Pinborg. Jan. II. Kretzmann, Norman. III. Series.
BC34.M43 1988 160' .9'02--dc19
88-4376
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Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands Kluwer Academic Publishers incorporates the publishing programmes of D. Reidel, Martinus Nijhoff, Dr W. Junk and MTP Press. Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Norwell, MA 02061, U.S.A. In all other countries, sold and distributed by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, P.O. Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands
All Rights Reserved © 1988 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1988 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner
JAN PINBORG 1937-1982
Photograph © Rigmor Mydtskov. All Rights Reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
IX
On Boethius's Notion of Being: A Chapter of Boethian Semantics
L. M. DE RIJK /
ELEONORE STUMP /
Logic in the Early Twelfth Century
The Distinction Actus Exercitusl Actus Significatus in Medieval Semantics
1 31
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS / ROBERT ANDREWS /
Denomination in Peter of Auvergne
57 91
Concrete Accidental Terms: Late Thirteenth-Century Debates About Problems Relating to Such Terms as 'Album'
107
Concrete Accidental Terms and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech
175
The Logic of the Categorical: The Medieval Theory of Descent and Ascent
187
Tu Scis Hoc Esse Omne Quod Est Hoc: Richard Kilvington and the Logic of Knowledge
225
Logic and Trinitarian Theology: De Modo Predicandi ac Sylogizandi in Divinis
247
A Seventeenth-Century Physician on God and Atoms: Sebastian Basso
297
STEN EBBESEN /
REINHARD HUELSEN /
PAUL VINCENT SPADE / NORMAN KRETZMANN / ALFONSO MAIERU /
