This is the first complete English translation of On the Purity of
the Art of Logic, a handbook of logic written in Latin by English
philosopher Walter Burley (c. 1275-1344/5). The work circulated in
the Middle Ages in two versions, a shorter and a longer one, both
translated here by Paul Vincent Spade. The translations arc based
on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected by
Spade on the basis of one of the surviving manuscripts. The book
also includes an extensive introduction, explanatory notes, a table
of corresponding passages between the two versions, a select
annotated bibliography, and three indexes.
A contemporary of John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham, Burley
was active at the universities of both Paris and Oxford. He became
one of the most important figures in the transformation of medieval
logic and semantics that took place in the early fourteenth
century. Burley used new tools and techniques of logical and
semantical analysis, yet in many cases he used them in defense of
traditional views, such as a realist metaphysical theory of
"universals". On the Purity of the Art of Logic shows both these
sides of Burley -- the innovator and the conservative -- as well as
some of the ways in which his views corresponded or clashed with
those of William of Ockham.
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