Medieval Modal Systems
Subtitle: Problems and Concepts (Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780754608332
Subjects: To 1500; Logic, Medieval; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Medieval; Discourse analysis; Historical & comparative linguistics; Medieval & Scholastic philosophy; Logic; History; Modality (Logic)
First sentence: To begin at the beginning, we need to understand the essentials (so to speak) of Aristotle's modal syllogistic, that being the foundation on which the whole of medieval modal logic is built.