William of Sherwood's Treatise on Syncategorematic Words was first
published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital
technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible,
and are published unaltered from the original University of
Minnesota Press editions. This is the first translation of an
important medieval work in philosophy, an advanced treatise by the
thirteenth-century English logician William of Sherwood. The
treatise draws on doctrines developed in Sherwood's Introduction to
Logic,which has also been translated by Professor Kretzmann.
William of Sherwood is an important figure in the development of
the logica moderna,the distinctively medieval contribution to logic
and semantics. As Professor Kretzmann explains, the logica moderna
may have originally aimed only ad providing ad hoc rules regarding
inferences that involve problematic locutions of ordinary
discourse. But its principal aim soon became the development of a
more or less general account of the ways in which words are used to
stand for things or to affect the meanings of other words. In
Sherwood's time the logica moderna seems to have been thought of as
having two branches, an account of the "properties of terms" and an
account of the signification and function of "syncategorematic
words." Sherwood deals with the first branch in his Introduction to
Logic and with the second branch in the treatise presented here.
The translation is copiously annotated to supply the kind of
explanatory material a twentieth-century reader may need for an
understanding of a thirteenth-century discussion. As Professor
Kretzmann points out, many of the problems dealt with in this
treatise closely resemble the problems of twentieth-century
philosophical logic and philosophy of language.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
June 1968 |
| First published: |
June 1968 |
| Translators: |
Norman Kretzmann
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
196 |
| Edition: |
Minnesota Archive Editions Ed. |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-5805-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
General
Books >
Philosophy >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-8166-5805-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780816658053 |
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