Lies, Language, and Logic in the Late Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Spade, Paul Vincent

 
9780860782209: Lies, Language, and Logic in the Late Middle Ages
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0860782204 ISBN 13 : 9780860782209
Editeur : Variorum, 1988

Synopsis

'This sentence is false' - is that true? The 'Liar paradox' embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar 'insoluble' problems, forms the subject of the first group of articles in this volume. In the following parts Professor Spade turns to medieval semantic theory, views on the relationship between language and thought, and to a study of one particular genre of disputation, that known as 'obligationes'. The focus is on the Oxford scholastics of the first half of the 14th century, and it is the name of William of Ockham which dominates these pages - a thinker with whom Professor Spade finds himself in considerable philosophical sympathy, and whose work on logic and semantic theory has a depth and richness that have not always been sufficiently appreciated.

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Paul Vincent Spade

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Éditeur
Variorum
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860782204
ISBN 13 
9780860782209
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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Personne responsable
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