150 Pages
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Routledge
150 Pages
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Routledge
150 Pages
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Routledge
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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.... Read more
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Part I: Introduction
1. Medieval Philosophy and Medieval Logic
2. Medieval Logic and Modern Logic
3. Preliminary Survey
Part II: Ontology
4. Names
5. Functors and Quantification: Informal Exposition
6. Punctuation
7. Definitions
8. Axiom and Deductions
Part III: Applications
9. Suppositio and Modern Logic
10. Anselmian Regresses
11. Existence and Inclusion
12. Negation and Non-Being
13. Ockham and the Formal Distinction
14. Being, Essence and Existence
15. The Ontological Argument
16. Abelard on Increase
Index
Biography
Henry, D.P.
