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Jean Buridan's Logic - The Treatise on Supposition The Treatise on Consequences (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Jean Buridan's Logic - The Treatise on Supposition The Treatise on Consequences (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 27
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Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians,
sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a
need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works,
for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to
problems of concern to analytic philosophers today. But his idiom
is unfamiliar, so editions and trans lations alone will not bridge
the gap of centuries. I have tried to make Buridan accessible to
philosophers and logicians today by the introduc tory essay, in
which I survey Buridan's philosophy of logic. Several problems
which Buridan touches on only marginally in the works trans lated
herein are developed and discussed, citing other works of Buridan;
some topics which he treats at length in the translated works, such
as the semantic theory of oblique terms, I have touched on lightly
or not at all. Such distortions are inevitable, and I hope that the
idiosyncracies of my choice of philosophically relevant topics will
not blind the reader to other topics of value Buridan considers. My
goal in translating has been to produce an accurate renaering of
the Latin. Often Buridan will couch a logical rule in terms of the
grammatical form of a sentence, and I have endeavored to keep the
translation consistent. Some strained phrases result, such as "A
man I know" having a different logic from "I know a man. " This
awkwardness cannot always be avoided, and I beg the reader's
indulgence. All of the translations here are my own."
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