This is a book of 402 pages (plus front material) on early-fourteenth century logic and semantics. It focuses primarily on the theories of signification and supposition (including ampliation), along with connotation-theory and the theory of mental language. The main authors discussed are Ockham, Burley, Peter of Ailly and, to some extent, Gregory of Rimini, although other people are treated too. Ch. 2 contains a "Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Logic to the End of the Middle Ages." There is an Appendix with a chronological table of names (and comments), and another Appendix of short primary texts that are discussed in the book. It is meant to be used in connection with my translations from William of Ockham's Summa logicae and Walter Burley's De suppositionibus, which may be downloaded from this Web page (see above), and with my preliminary translation from Walter Burley's De puritate artis logicae tractatus longior, available for downloading above, and also available from the Translation Clearing House at Oklahoma State University (http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/philosophy/)-- Author's website.
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This is a book of 402 pages (plus front material) on early-fourteenth century logic and semantics. It focuses primarily on the theories of signification and supposition (including ampliation), along with connotation-theory and the theory of mental language. The main authors discussed are Ockham, Burley, Peter of Ailly and, to some extent, Gregory of Rimini, although other people are treated too. Ch. 2 contains a "Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Logic to the End of the Middle Ages." There is an Appendix with a chronological table of names (and comments), and another Appendix of short primary texts that are discussed in the book. It is meant to be used in connection with my translations from William of Ockham's Summa logicae and Walter Burley's De suppositionibus, which may be downloaded from this Web page (see above), and with my preliminary translation from Walter Burley's De puritate artis logicae tractatus longior, available for downloading above, and also available from the Translation Clearing House at Oklahoma State University (http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/philosophy/)-- Author's website.