Summulae de syllogismis
By: Johannes Buridanus ; introduction, critical edition and indexes by Joke Spruyt
Contributors: Spruyt, Joke, 1955-
Series: Artistarium -- 10-5; Artistarium -- 10/5.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9782503533681
Subjects: Logic; Early works to 1800; Syllogism
Description: Summary: "De syllogismis" is the fifth treatise of John Buridan's "Summulae dialecticae", a textbook he wrote for his logic course in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Paris. "De syllogismis" contains material related to Aristotle's "Analytica Priora" and Boethius's "De hypotheticis syllogismis". The textbook discusses inferences involving not only propositions de 'inesse', but also propositions featuring oblique, reduplicative and infinite terms. Buridan displays a keen interest in modal inferences and inferences involving propositional attitudes. Buridan's "De syllogismis" continues along the lines of his nominalist conception of the relations between mind, language and reality.
Notes: Fifth of the 8 treatises which comprise Buridan's Logic.

"De syllogismis contains material related to Aristotle's Analytica Priora" and Boethius's De hypotheticis syllogismis. The textbook discusses inferences involving not only propositions de 'inesse', but also propositions featuring oblique, reduplicative and infinite terms. Buridan displays a keen interest in modal inferences and inferences involving propositional attitudes. Buridan's "De syllogismis" continues along the lines of his nominalist conception of the relations between mind, language and reality"--P. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxv-xxxviii) and indexes.