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John Buridan / Gyula Klima.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klima, Gyula.
- Series:
- Great medieval thinkers.
- Great medieval thinkers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Buridan, Jean, 1300-1358.
- Buridan, Jean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of the philosopher John Buridan. Klima argues that many of Buridan's academic concerns are strikingly similar to those of modern philosophy and his work sometimes quite directly addresses modern philosophical questions.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029194-X
- 0-19-972107-6
- 9786611980559
- 1-281-98055-2
- 0-19-517622-7
- OCLC:
- 301989742
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