Abstract

Logic in the second scholastic era canbe characterised as a decline of interest in purelogic combined with a flourishing of attentiondevoted to applied logic. In epistemic logic, thistendency translates to the disappearance of theoriginal medieval genres and the migration ofcertain topic to different disciplines, such as psychology, epistemology, and theology. The presentstudy addresses three topics of epistemic logic inthe post-medieval era. First, the problem of theveridicality of knowledge, insofar as it took theform of analysing the logical structure of statementssuch as “Peter knows that φ, therefore φ”.This analysis resulted into introducing the logic ofa weak implication called “moral implication” (relatedto the scholastic probability debate). Second, the problem of logical omniscience, which turnedinto an important psychological topic related toissues such as cognitive capacity and the (acquired)automatization of inferential behaviour. Third, the problem of (positive) introspection, which becamepart of the theory of evidence and its self-manifesting character.