Buridan’s Secular Demarcation of Logic

Philosophia 49 (3):1267-1288 (2020)
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In his Tractatus de Consequentiis, the 14th century logician John Buridan states a theorem, which reads like a refutation of Aristotelian Syllogistics. Syllogistics in its usual form, indeed, faces problems when propositions about the divine persons are involved, and, in some cases, when past- or future-tense propositions occur. Buridan offers different ways of overcoming some of these obstacles. The first aim of this paper is to analyse these ways, the second aim is to draw some conclusions concerning Buridan’s understanding of logic and its relation to theology.

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Esther Ramharter
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Treatise on Consequences.John Buridan - 2020 - Fordham University Press.
Summulae de Dialectica.John Buridan (ed.) - 2001 - Yale University Press.
Ancient logic.Susanne Bobzien - 2012 - In Peter Adamson (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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