Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic ( Volume 2 )

Publication series ：Volume 2

Author： Gabbay Dov M.;Woods John

Publisher： Elsevier Science‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9780080560854

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780444516251

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780444516251

Subject： K History and Geography;O1-0 mathematical theory

Language： ENG

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Starting at the very beginning with Aristotle's founding contributions, logic has been graced by several periods in which the subject has flourished, attaining standards of rigour and conceptual sophistication underpinning a large and deserved reputation as a leading expression of human intellectual effort. It is widely recognized that the period from the mid-19th century until the three-quarter mark of the century just past marked one of these golden ages, a period of explosive creativity and transforming insights. It has been said that ignorance of our history is a kind of amnesia, concerning which it is wise to note that amnesia is an illness. It would be a matter for regret, if we lost contact with another of logic's golden ages, one that greatly exceeds in reach that enjoyed by mathematical symbolic logic. This is the period between the 11th and 16th centuries, loosely conceived of as the Middle Ages. The logic of this period does not have the expressive virtues afforded by the symbolic resources of uninterpreted calculi, but mediaeval logic rivals in range, originality and intellectual robustness a good deal of the modern record. The range of logic in this period is striking, extending from investigation of quantifiers and logic consequence to inquiries into logical truth; from theories of reference to accounts of identity; from work on the modalities to the stirrings of the logic of relations, from theories of meaning to analyses of the paradoxes, and more. While the s

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Front Cover

pp.： 1 – 4

Handbook of the History of Logic: Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic

pp.： 4 – 5

pp.： 5 – 6

Contents

pp.： 6 – 8

Preface

pp.： 8 – 10

List of Contributors

pp.： 10 – 12

Chapter 1. Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition

pp.： 12 – 76

Chapter 2. Logic at the Turn of the Twelfth Century

pp.： 76 – 94

Chapter 3. Peter Abelard and his Contemporaries

pp.： 94 – 168

Chapter 4. The Development of Supposition Theory in the Later 12th through 14th Centuries

pp.： 168 – 292

Chapter 5. The Assimilation of Aristotelian and Arabic Logic up to the Later Thirteenth Century

pp.： 292 – 358

Chapter 6. Logic and Theories of Meaning in the Late 13th and Early 14th Century including the Modistae

pp.： 358 – 400

Chapter 7. The Nominalist Semantics of Ockham and Buridan: A 'Rational Reconstruction'

pp.： 400 – 444

Chapter 8. Logic in the 14th Century after Ockham

pp.： 444 – 516

Chapter 9. Medieval Modal Theories and Modal Logic

pp.： 516 – 590

Chapter 10. Treatments of the Paradoxes of Self-reference

pp.： 590 – 620

Chapter 11. Developments in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

pp.： 620 – 656

Chapter 12. Relational Logic of Juan Caramuel

pp.： 656 – 678

Chapter 13. Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity

pp.： 678 – 712

Index

pp.： 712 – 728

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