Medieval Logic And Metaphysics

Author : D.P. Henry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429594240
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Logic and Metaphysics written by D.P. Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, Medieval Logic and Metaphysics shows how formal logic can be used in the clarification of philosophical problems. An elementary exposition of Leśniewski’s Onotology, an important system of contemporary logic, is followed by studies of central philosophical themes such as Negation and Non-being, Essence and Existence, Meaning and Reference, Part and Whole. Philosophers and theologians discussed include St Anselm, St Thomas Aquinas, Abelard, Ockham, Scotus, Hume and Russell.

Author : Charles Bolyard
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823244725
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Later Medieval Metaphysics written by Charles Bolyard and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with standard ontological topics--such as the nature of existence--and of metaphysics generally, such as the status of universals, form, and accidents. What is the proper subject matter of metaphysical speculation? Are essence and existence really distinct in bodies? Does the body lose its unifying form at death? Can an accident of a substance exist in separation from that substance? Are universals real, and, if so, are they anything more than general concepts? Among the figures it examines are Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, John Buridan, Dietrich of Freiburg, Robert Holcot, Walter Burley, and the 11th-century Islamic philosopher Ibn-Sina (Avicenna).There is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived. Thus, additional discussions of connected topics in medieval logic, epistemology, and language provide a fuller account of the range of ideas included in the later medieval worldview.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834106
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For medieval thinkers, the distinction between intentional and extra-mental reality does not precipitate a Kantian turn to the subject. Rather, they allow that metaphysics and natural philosophy study things as they are and leave to logic the investigation of things as conceived. Within this broad scheme, there is much room for debate regarding whether and to what extent Aristotle’s categories comprise an accurate picture of what types of things exist. Closely tied to consideration of what types of things exist are questions concerning how language reflects the relations that hold among these things. For instance, both substances and the accidents parasitic on their existence are said to be, but not in the same way. The essays in Categories, and What is Beyond draw on the philosophical traditions of late antiquity and the middle ages to study what types of things there are, the extent to which our knowledge of these entities is accurate, how (and whether) the semantics of analogy are competent to adjust for the difference and diversity found amongst analogates, and some ways in which these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834203
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Metaphysics, or is it "Just Semantics"? (Volume 7 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval semantic theories develop out of Aristotle’s On Interpretation, in which he notes that “Spoken sounds are symbols of affections in the soul, and written marks symbols of spoken sounds” (tr. J. L. Ackrill, OUP 1984). The medieval commentary tradition elaborates on Aristotle’s theory in light of various epistemological and metaphysical commitments, including those entailed by the doctrine of the transcendentals that emerges from the tradition in the writings of Philip the Chancellor (d. 1236). Transcendental attributes such as unity, truth and goodness (properties that figure into most if not all accounts of the transcendentals) characterize every being as such, and hence the doctrine of the transcendentals promised some knowledge of God. This hope, together with the general medieval consensus that the cognitive acts by which we grasp extra-mental entities are veridical (i.e., in most cases, these acts represent what the cognizing subject takes them to represent) encouraged medieval thinkers to devote considerable effort to discerning how concepts latch onto reality. Medieval Metaphysics, or Is It “Just Semantics”? follows these attempts as concerns the signification of theological discourse in general and Trinitarian semantics in particular, the proper object of the intellect, and what is signified through quidditative or essential definition.

Author : Desmond Paul Henry
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 : 9780091108311
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Logic and Metaphysics written by Desmond Paul Henry and published by London : Hutchinson. This book was released on 1972 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Desmond Paul Henry
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Author : F. Amerini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788876426674
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mereology in Medieval Logic and Metaphysics. Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics written by F. Amerini and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834092
Total Pages : 115 pages
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Download or read book Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses the medieval philosophical landscape of metaphysics, logic and natural philosophy. Alexander W. Hall discusses Thomas Aquinas’s interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine of per se predication as it occurs in the conclusion of scientific demonstrations, i.e., of arguments producing scientific knowledge in the strict sense. Henrik Lagerlund and Catarina Dutilh Novaes take up medieval studies of mental language in the writings of Peter of Ailly and William Ockham. Works in this genre seek to discern what concepts are concepts of, the ontological status of concepts as entities, and how concepts stand for and represent things in the world. Lastly, Walter Redmond comments on and translates the prologue to and first chapter of the Mexican Jesuit Father Matías Blanco’s (d. 1734) The Three-Stranded Cord [Funiculus triplex], where Blanco treats the antinomy between freedom and determination, modal semantics, tense logic and the logical status of counterfactuals in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s causality and omniscience.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152752650X
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hylomorphism and Mereology written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mereology is the metaphysical theory of parts and wholes, including their conditions of identity and persistence through change. Hylomorphism is the metaphysical doctrine according to which all natural substances, including living organisms, consist of matter and form as their essential parts, where the substantial form of living organisms is identified as their soul. The theories date to Plato and Aristotle and figure prominently in the history of philosophy up until the seventeenth century, where their influence wanes relative to a reductive materialism that culminates with deflationary accounts of objects and persons, where mere conglomerates constitute things and we are left to account for mental phenomena in terms of the powers of physical materials. In view of such difficulties, there is a renewed interest in hylomorphism, as its forms structure matter and can account for natural kinds, with their various capacities and powers. This volume presents medieval theories of hylomorphism and mereology, articulating the conceptual framework in which they developed and with an eye on their relevance today.

Author : Gyula Klima
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834114
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge (Volume 6 written by Gyula Klima and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge presents three sets of essays. The first is an exchange between Antoine Côté and Charles Bolyard over Siger of Brabant’s strategy to silence the skeptic by discriminating between nobler and lesser senses and grounding certitude in sense perceptions. Second is another scholarly exchange, between Rondo Keele and Jack Zupko, over what Keele describes as Walter Chatton’s attempt to discredit Ockhamist nominalism by means of both an ‘anti-razor’, employed by Chatton to prescribe ontological commitment, and an argument strategy based on iteration and infinite regress. The last group of essays explores issues that develop out of the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. Joshua Hochschild defends several key positions of Thomistic metaphysics against Anthony Kenny’s criticism that Aquinas’s treatment of being is inadequate, incoherent or even sophistic. Similarly, David Twetten, after laying out Aquinas’s nine versions of the proof for the Real Distinction between essence and esse, suggests one way in which Aquinas could meet the Aristotelian’s formidable ‘Question-Begging Objection’. Lastly, Scott M. Williams contends that to preserve God’s perfect knowledge of individual material creatures, Aquinas must alter his account of the unintelligibility of prime matter in the individuation of material creatures.