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Paul of Venice : Logica magna, the treatise on insolubles / edited with an introduction, English translation, and commentary by Stephen Read and Barbara Bartocci.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428, author.
- Series:
- Dallas medieval texts and translations ; 27.
- Dallas medieval texts and translations ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logic--Early works to 1800.
- Logic.
- Insolubilia (Logic).
- Proposition (Logic).
- Logic, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 448 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Logica magna
- Treatise on insolubles
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven : Peeters, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Original text in Latin with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.
- Summary:
- "Paul of Venice joined the Austin Friars at an early age and was sent by them from Padua to study at Oxford in 1390. When he returned, full of ideas and laden with books, he began his prodigious writing career with several books on logic, including the Logica Magna, which runs to some half a million words. The current volume contains the final treatise, on insolubles - that is, logical paradoxes. After surveying fifteen previous solutions, Paul develops his own, based on the idea that such propositions falsify themselves. Besides a critical edition of the Latin text, the volume also contains an English translation, a detailed commentary, excerpts from two other logical works of Paul, and a substantial introduction. The introduction describes the fourteenth-century background to Paul's treatise; it also gives a detailed rebuttal of a recent claim that the Logica Magna is not by Paul because its content clashes with genuine works of his. All in all, the volume greatly enhances our understanding of the development of logic, in particular of the semantics of propositions, during a crucial century in its history." -- Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-74) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Contains:
- Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428. Logica magna. Latin. (Read and Bartocci). 2022.
- Paolo, Veneto, approximately 1370-1428. Logica magna. English. (Read and Bartocci). 2022.
- Other Format:
- e-book version
- ISBN:
- 9789042949409
- 9042949406
- OCLC:
- 1350452323
- Publisher Number:
- 9789042949409
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