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Juan Luis Vives Against the Pseudodialecticians - A Humanist Attack on Medieval Logic (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
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Juan Luis Vives Against the Pseudodialecticians - A Humanist Attack on Medieval Logic (Hardcover, 1979 ed.)
Series: Synthese Historical Library, 18
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The humanist treatises presented here are only peripheral to the
history of logic, but I think historians of logic may read them
with interest, if perhaps with irritation. In the early sixteenth
century the humanists set about to demolish medieval logic based on
syllogistic and disputation, and to replace it in the university
curriculum with a 'rhetorical' logic based on the use of topics and
persuasion. To a very large extent they succeeded. Although Aris
totelian logic retained a vigorous life in the schools, it never
again attained to the overwhelming primacy it had so long enjoyed
in the northern universities. It has been the custom to take the
arguments of the humanists at face value, and the word 'scholastic'
has continued to have pejorative overtones. This is easy to
understand, because until recently our knowledge of the high period
of medieval logic has been slight, and the humanists' testimony as
to its decadent state in the sixteenth century has, for the most
part, been accepted uncritically. Within the past two decades
important work on medieval logic has recovered the brilliant
achievement of thirteenth and fourteenth century logicians,
philosophers, and natural scientists. New studies are constantly
appearing, and the logico-semantic system of the terminists has
become fruitful territory not only for historians of logic but also
for students of modern linguistics and semiotics."
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