The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Band 282) - Hardcover

Pinzani, Roberto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004371141 ISBN 13: 9789004371149

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2018

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The problem of universals is one of the main philosophical issues. In this book the author reconstructs the history of the problem considering a selection of medieval representative texts and authors. The source of medieval and postmedieval debate is identified in the Socratic-Platonic survey on the definition of concepts.
In the Categories, Aristotle discusses important topics concerning the relations that exist between logical terms. In particular he establishes a kind of predication principle: categorial terms have a certain predication relation if (and only if) some facts expressed by ordinary sentences hold. The Categories also because of their particular disciplinary status, halfway between logic and metaphysics, leave a number of questions open. Among these questions, a particularly intriguing one is Porphyry's riddle: are there genera and species? And, if there are such things, what are they like?

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Roberto Pinzani, Ph.D., University of Parma, Associate Professor - disciplinary sector Logic and Philosophy of Science. He has published monographs and many articles in the field of history of logic, including The Logical Grammar of Abelard, Kluwer ("Synthese Historical Library"), Dordrecht 2005.

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• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004371141
• ISBN 13: 9789004371149
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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