John Buridan
By: Gyula Klima.
Series: Great medieval thinkers; Great medieval thinkers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195176223; 9780195176230
Subjects: Buridan, Jean, -- 1300-1358; Philosophy, Medieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Buridan's life, works, and influence; title: Buridan's logic and the medieval logical tradition; title: The primacy of mental language; title: The various kinds of concepts and the idea of a mental language; title: Natural language and the idea of a "formal syntax" in Buridan; title: Existential import and the Square of opposition; title: Ontological commitment; title: The properties of terms (proprietates terminorum); title: The semantics of propositions; title: Logical validity in a token-based, semantically closed logic; title: The possibility of scientific knowledge; title: Buridan's anti-skepticism; title: Buridan's essentialist nominalism.