<p>This entirely new English translation of Buridanโs classic treatment of logical consequence aims to make accessible to the modern reader the foremost treatment of the subject in the middle ages. The translation is accompanied by an introduction in which Buridanโs ideas are set in their historical
Jean Buridanโs Logic: The Treatise on Supposition The Treatise on Consequences
โ Scribed by N. Kretzmann, G. Nuchelmans, L. M. De Rijk (auth.), N. Kretzmann, G. Nuchelmans, L. M. De Rijk (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 384
- Series
- Synthese Historical Library 27
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians, sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works, for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to problems of concern to analytic philosophers today. But his idiom is unfamiliar, so editions and transยญ lations alone will not bridge the gap of centuries. I have tried to make Buridan accessible to philosophers and logicians today by the introducยญ tory essay, in which I survey Buridan's philosophy of logic. Several problems which Buridan touches on only marginally in the works transยญ lated herein are developed and discussed, citing other works of Buridan; some topics which he treats at length in the translated works, such as the semantic theory of oblique terms, I have touched on lightly or not at all. Such distortions are inevitable, and I hope that the idiosyncracies of my choice of philosophically relevant topics will not blind the reader to other topics of value Buridan considers. My goal in translating has been to produce an accurate renaering of the Latin. Often Buridan will couch a logical rule in terms of the grammatical form of a sentence, and I have endeavored to keep the translation consistent. Some strained phrases result, such as "A man I know" having a different logic from "I know a man. " This awkwardness cannot always be avoided, and I beg the reader's indulgence. All of the translations here are my own.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Buridanโs Philosophy of Logic....Pages 1-82
Treatise on Supposition....Pages 83-173
Treatise on Consequences....Pages 175-323
Back Matter....Pages 325-380
โฆ Subjects
History; Logic
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