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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816653803321

Autore

Bos Egbert P.

Titolo

Nicholas of Amsterdam : commentary on The old logic : critical edition with introduction and indexes / / Egbert P. Bos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2016

©2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Collana

Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, , 1384-668X ; ; Band 58

Altri autori (Persone)

Nicholas, of Amsterdam,  <approximately 1390->

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Logic, Medieval

Logic, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preface and acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Preliminary remarks; 2. Nicholas of Amsterdam: life and works ; 2.1 Life ; 2.2 Works ; 2.3 Date of Nicholas' commentary on the ars vetus ; 3. Curriculum of the philosophical faculty of the University of Rostock ; 4. Form of the questions ; 5. The commentary as an exercitium ('exercise') ; 6. Principles of Nicholas' philosophy in his Commentary on the ars vetus ; 6.1 Nicholas as a conceptualist ; 6.2 Speaking in terms of reality or in terms of logic ; 6.3 Limitations of human knowledge ; 6.4 Semantics ; 6.4.1 Conventional language

6.5 On 'individual' 6.5.1 Singular concepts ; 6.5.2 Relation of individual terms with the imagination ; 7. Equivocal concepts ; 8. Category of quantity ; 8.1 Status of quantity ; 8.2 Nicholas' solution ; 9. Nicholas of Amsterdam on modal propositions ; 10. Principle of non-contradiction ; 10.1 Aristotle ; 10.2 John Buridan and Marsilius of Inghen ; 10.3 Nicholas' solution ; 11. Conclusions ; 12. Manuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 500 ; 12.1 Nicholas' Quaestiones logicales on the old logic ; 12.1.1 Exercitium in Porphyrium ; 12.1.2 Exercitium super Praedicamenta Aristotelis

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