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On the purity of the art of logic : the shorter and the longer treatises / Walter Burley ; translated by Paul Vincent Spade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
- Series:
- Yale library of medieval philosophy.
- Yale library of medieval philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- De puritate artis logicae tractatus brevior. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logic, Medieval.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume presents a complete English translation of 'On the Purity of the Art of Logic', a handbook of logic written in Latin by English philosopher Walter Burley (c.1275-1344/5). The work circulated in the Middle Ages in two versions, a shorter and a longer one, and are both translated here. The translations are based on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected here on the basis of one of the surviving manuscripts.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; The Shorter Treatise on the Purity of the Art of Logic ; The First Part: On General Rules; The First Subpart: On General Rules of Inferences; The Second Subpart: The Treatise on Syncategoremata; The Longer Treatise on the Purity of the Art of Logic ; Tract 1: On the Properties of Terms ; Part One: On Supposition; Part Two: On Appellation ; Part Three: On Copulation ; Tract 2: On Hypothetical Propositions and Syllogisms; Part One: On Conditional Hypothetical Propositions; Part Two: On the Manner of Arguing Syllogistically in Hypothetical Conditionals
- Part Three: On Other Hypothetical PropositionsSubpart 1: On Other Explicit Hypotheticals; Subpart 2 : On Implicit Hypotheticals; Appendix: Tables of Parallel Passages; Select Annotated Bibliography; Index of Persons; Index of Propositions, Rules, and Sophisms; Index of Topics
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and indexes.
- Contains:
- Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345? De puritate artis logicae tractatus longior. English.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73117-X
- 9786611731175
- 0-300-13287-5
- OCLC:
- 923590115
- Publisher Number:
- 9780300082005
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