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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gabbay, Dov M.,
• Woods, John

Titel

Handbook of the history of logic [electronic resource]. Volume 2. Mediaeval and renaissance logic

Auflage

1st ed

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• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

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• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Front Cover; Handbook of the History of Logic: Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Logic before 1100: The Latin Tradition; Chapter 2. Logic at the Turn of the Twelfth Century; Chapter 3. Peter Abelard and his Contemporaries; Chapter 4. The Development of Supposition Theory in the Later 12th through 14th Centuries; Chapter 5. The Assimilation of Aristotelian and Arabic Logic up to the Later Thirteenth Century; Chapter 6. Logic and Theories of Meaning in the Late 13th and Early 14th Century including the Modistae
• Chapter 7. The Nominalist Semantics of Ockham and Buridan: A 'Rational Reconstruction'Chapter 8. Logic in the 14th Century after Ockham; Chapter 9. Medieval Modal Theories and Modal Logic; Chapter 10. Treatments of the Paradoxes of Self-reference; Chapter 11. Developments in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Chapter 12. Relational Logic of Juan Caramuel; Chapter 13. Port Royal: The Stirrings of Modernity; Index
• 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, concernin
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