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John Buridan / Gyula Klima.
LIBRA B765.B844 K55 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klima, Gyula.
- Series:
- Great medieval thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buridan, Jean, 1300-1358.
- Buridan, Jean.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 352 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Buridan's life, works, and influence
- Buridan's logic and the medieval logical tradition
- The primacy of mental language
- The various kinds of concepts and the idea of a mental language
- Natural language and the idea of a "formal syntax" in Buridan
- Existential import and the Square of opposition
- Ontological commitment
- The properties of terms (proprietates terminorum)
- The semantics of propositions
- Logical validity in a token-based, semantically closed logic
- The possibility of scientific knowledge
- Buridan's anti-skepticism
- Buridan's essentialist nominalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195176223
- 0195176227
- 9780195176230
- 0195176235
- OCLC:
- 174134035
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