Possibility and Necessity in the Time of Peter Abelard
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A New Interest in Modal Logic -- 2 Early 12th-Century Sources on Modalities -- 3 Abelard's Texts on Modalities -- Part 1. Early 12th-Century Debates on Modal Propositions -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. The Received Views on Modalities...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Langue: | English |
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Boston : BRILL,
2021
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| Titres liés à la collection: | Investigating medieval philosophy
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| Accès à la collection: | Investigating medieval philosophy |
| Sujets: | Modality (Logic) Logic, Medieval Philosophy, Medieval Electronic books |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (334 pages) |
| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A New Interest in Modal Logic -- 2 Early 12th-Century Sources on Modalities -- 3 Abelard's Texts on Modalities -- Part 1. Early 12th-Century Debates on Modal Propositions -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1. The Received Views on Modalities -- 1 Necessity as Sempiternity and Immutability -- 2 Possibility as Potentiality -- 3 'One-Sided' Possibility and Possibilities extra-actum -- 4 Absolute versus Temporally Qualified Modalities -- 2. The Grammar and Syntax of Modal Claims -- 1 What Is a Mode? Grammatical and Logical Perspectives on Modalities -- 2 Proper and Improper Modes -- 3 Adverbial and Nominal Modes -- 3. The Nature of Modalities and the Signification of Modal Terms -- 1 What Do Modal Terms Signify? -- 2 Do Modal Terms Refer to Things or to Propositions? -- 3 Possibility as Compatibility with Nature -- 4 Necessity as Inevitability and Immutability -- Part 2. Abelard's Modal Logic -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4. Abelard on de re and de dicto Modalities -- 1 The de re/de dicto Distinction in the Dialectica -- 2 The Development of the Distinction in the Logica Ingredientibus -- 5. The Existential Import of Modal Propositions -- 1 The Existential Import of Propositions de puro inesse -- 2 The Existential Import in de rebus and de sensu Modal Claims -- 3 Existential Import and the Modal Square of Oppositions -- 6. The Logic of Modal Propositions -- 1 Abelard on the Syntactic Structure of de rebus Modal Propositions -- 2 Oppositions and Equipollences -- 3 Modal Principles of Inference, Conversions, and Syllogistics -- 7. Simple and Determinate Modal Propositions -- 1 Abelard on Temporally Qualified Modalities -- 2 On the Meaning of the dum-Clause -- 3 The Logic for Determinate Modal Propositions -- 4 Another Puzzle Raised by Determinate Modal Propositions. |
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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (334 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004470460 9004470468 9789004470286 900447028X |