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The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the
eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new
insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the
post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the
divide between the via antiqua and via moderna that dominated the
discourse on logic during the 15th and early 16th centuries. The
focus of the book is on the logic and philosophy of language of
John Fabri of Valenciennes (fl. c. 1500), one of the last exponents
of the terminist approach to logic that was bitterly criticized by
the humanist movement. By means of a careful reconstruction of
Fabri's text, the book argues that Fabri's modal logic ultimately
goes back to the work of John Buridan, and represents the same
approach to the topic as the modal logics that were developed by
adherents of the via moderna in Paris. This has significant
implications for the historiography of post-medieval philosophy.
Fabri was active in Louvain, which until the late 16th century was
the most important intellectual center in the Low Countries.
According to a long-standing tradition in the scholarship, Louvain
was one of the few bulwarks of via antiqua logic on the map of
post-medieval Europe. The book argues that this thesis is at least
in part a scholarly fiction, and thus in need of revision. By
shedding light on an author whose thought has thus far remained
entirely unstudied, it also constitutes a valuable step towards a
history of philosophy without any gaps. The book is aimed at
graduate students and researchers in the history of logic and
philosophy, but will also be of interest to intellectual
historians, historians of ideas, and to any contemporary modal
logician who is interested in the historical roots of their
discipline.
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