Buridan

It seemed like Buridan (and later Oresme and Aquinas) were arguing on both sides of the Question!

January 9th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Finally, Albert is close to the Venerabilis Inceptor in his theory of the categories, where, in contrast to Buridan, he refuses to consider quantity as something absolutely real, reducing it instead to a disposition of substance and quality.

Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009

Buridan taught at the University of Paris, and rather unusually remained a teaching master in the Arts Faculty for his entire career, from the 1330s (or earlier) until at least 1358.

Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009

In particular, he restores the notion of simple supposition -- i.e., the reference of a term to the concept to which it is subordinated, when it signifies an extra-mental thing -- which had been criticized and rejected by Buridan.

Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009

Much closer to Bradwardine than Buridan is another Paris logician,

Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009

But there is reason to doubt whether Albert was a student or even follower of Buridan, for Buridan belonged to the Picardian Nation at the University, whereas Albert was in the English (or by then “Anglo-German”) Nation, and in general his outlook follows the English logical tradition from earlier in the century.

Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009

Buridan, John [Jean] | categories: medieval theories of |

Trinity Tuggy, Dale 2009

A translation of Buridan's Sophismata, based on the edition published in Buridan (1977).

Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009

(Summa Logicae, II) and Buridan (Sophismata, II) give exhaustive lists of different truth-conditional clauses for sentences of different grammatical categories; they refrain from associating true sentences in general with items from a single ontological category.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009

There are echoes in Albert not only of the approach Buridan had systematically implemented in his

Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009