Compendium of the study of theology
By: Roger Bacon ; edition and translation with introduction and notes by Thomas S. Maloney.
Contributors: Maloney, Thomas S.
Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters,; Bd. 20
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Signification (Logic) -- Early works to 1800.; Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Theology -- Early works to 1800.; Logic, Medieval.
Description: In Part I the author draws on classical authors to illustrate three causes of error in his time and underscores the need for an integral understanding of the signification of terms. In Part II he proposes six themes: a new classification of signs; a theory that common terms signify principally objects, not concepts; connotation as natural signification; common terms signifying an entity and a nonentity are equivocal; terms can lose their signification; a non-Aristotelian classification of equivocation in six modes. Bacon was a very original semanticist and some of his theories helped pave the way for Ockham a few decades later. This treatise opens many windows on to the debate on semantics in the late 13th century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [179]-187.
Translation of: Compendium studii theologiae.
Includes indexes.