Robert Kilwardby’s Science of Logic : a A Thirteenth-Century Intensional Logic / Paul Thom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thom, Paul, author.

Series:

Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 14.

Investigating Medieval Philosophy ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Kilwardby, Robert, -1279.

Kilwardby, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Paul Thom’s book presents Kilwardby’s science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains the logic of genus and species through the notion of essence. Thom interprets this science as a formal logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardby’s logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Introduction

Logic as Science and Art

The Logic of Terms: Categories and Complex Terms

The Logic of Terms: Relations between Terms

The Logic of Statements: Assertoric Statements

The Logic of Statements: Necessity and Possibility Statements

The Logic of Statements: Contingency Statements

The Logic of Inferences: Consequences

The Logic of Inferences: Assertoric Syllogisms

The Logic of Inferences: Necessity Syllogisms

The Logic of Inferences: Contingency Syllogisms

The Logic of Inferences: Non-perfectible Inferences

Back Matter

References

Modern Author Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-40877-0

OCLC:

1121132799

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004408777 DOI