Paul Vincent Spade
Biographic Data
| ID | 1039145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Vincent Spade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Spade |
| SIGNATURE | SPADE P V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Insolubilia and Bradwardine's Theory of Signification
In the Middle ages the term for an antinomy or paradox of the Liar type (‘This sentence is false’ or ‘This sentence is not true’) was ‘ insolubile ’ - an «insoluble». There was a great deal of literature on the topic of such insolubles in the Middle Ages, and that literature has recently begun to be investigated in detail. 1 As a result of this research, it has become clear that the views of Thomas Bradwardine on this topic were especially influe…
Lies, Language and Logic in the Late Middle Ages
’This sentence is false’ - is that true? The ’Liar paradox’ embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar ’insoluble’ problems, forms the subject of the first group of articles in this volume. In the following parts Professor Spade turns to medieval semantic theory, views on the relationship between language and thought, and to a study of one particular genre of…
On the Purity of the Art of Logic
An English translation of a handbook of logic written in Latin by English philosopher Walter Burley. The book includes both the versions circulated in the Middle Ages, along with an introduction, explanatory notes, a table of corresponding passages, an annotated bibliography and three indexes
On the Purity of the Art of Logic
"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 are based on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected by Spade on the basis of one of the surviving manuscript…
The Cambridge companion to Ockham
Ockhams' Nominalist Metaphysics
The first thing one learns about William of Ockham's philosophy is usually that he was a "nominalist." But sometimes it is not explained just what Ockham's nominalism was. For medieval nominalism, like its modern namesake, took many sometimes surprising forms.
Walter Burley on The Kinds of Simple Supposition
Au-dela des differences metaphysiques et semantiques qui distinguent Walter Burley et Guillaume d'Ockham sur la question de la theorie medievale de la supposition, partagee entre une theorie de la reference et une theorie des singuliers, l'A. etudie les divisions et subdivisions de la supposition simple etablies par Walter Burley dans son traite «De suppositionibus» (1302) et «De puritate artis logicae tractacus longior» (1327), ainsi que dans so…
The Logic of " Sit Verum " in Richard Brinkley and William of Ockham
The Logic of «SIT VERUM" in RICHARD BRINKLEY and WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Introduction In 1980, Gedeon Gal and Rega Wood first called scholars' attention to Richard Brinkley, the author of a Summa logicae written perhaps sometime between 1360 and 1373.1 Recently, Gordon A. Wilson and I published an edition of the final treatise from this Summa logicae, Brinkley's Obligationes (see n. 1). The present paper will explore one strand of this treatise, Brinkl…
Quodlibetal Questions
Middle Platonism and Neo-Platonism
Ockham, Adams and Connotation
If I had written this book, I could die a happy man. I did not write it, but still I can join mediaevalists everywhere in celebrating its publication. In what follows, I will first discuss the contents of Adams's book (Section I), its intended audience (Section II), and some defects in the actual production of the volumes (Section III). Then I will turn to theoretical matters, and discuss certain difficulties and suggestions I find in Ockham's th…
John Wyclif: De Universalibus, Vol. 2: On Universals
Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150)
Richard Lavenham's Treatise Scire
The semantics of terms
Medieval philosophers and logicians used the word 'term' (terminus) in several senses, two of which are especially pertinent to this discussion. Strictly speaking, a term is what is subjected to the predicate or predicated of the subject in an ordinary categorical proposition – the subject term or the predicate term, the two ends (termini) of the proposition. In this sense whole phrases may be terms, but only certain sorts of words – nouns, adjec…
Paul of Venice
Les modalités aléthiques selon Ockham
Die Modalbegriffe in den logischen Schriften des Wilhelm von Shyreswood und in anderen Kompendien des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
William Heytesbury
On "Insoluble" Sentences. Chapter One of Rules for Solving Sophisms
Book Reviews Get access On “Insoluble” Sentences. Chapter One of Rules for Solving Sophisms, By William Heytesbury. (Translated with an Introduction and Study by Paul Vincent Spade.) (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979. Pp. 112.) P. A. Clarke P. A. Clarke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 122, January 1981, Pages 70–71, https://doi.org/10.23…
Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge Logic
This paper argues that the 14th-century Oxford Carmelite Richard Lavenham was the author of the treatise De syncategorematibus that was used as a textbook in 15th-century Cambridge, a version of which was printed several times in the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the Libellus sophistarum ad usum Cantabrigiensium. The manuscript versions of this treatise differ significantly from one another and from the printed editions, so that the claim…
Recent research on medieval logic
Logik zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus
Robert Fland's Insolubilia
Priority of Analysis and the Predicates of "O"-form Sentences
PRIORITY OF ANALYSIS AND THE PREDICATES OF "0"-FORM SENTENCES In 1970, John J. Swiniarski observed in this journal that there is something peculiar about Ockham's doctrine that the predicates of O-form sentences have confused and distributive supposition.1 In 1973, Gareth Matthews made a similar point.2 In brief, the problem is this: Ockham defines confused and distributive supposition in such a way that a given term in a sentence has confused an…
Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge Logic
This paper argues that the 14th-century Oxford Carmelite Richard Lavenham was the author of the treatise De syncategorematibus that was used as a textbook in 15th-century Cambridge, a version of which was printed several times in the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the Libellus sophistarum ad usum Cantabrigiensium. The manuscript versions of this treatise differ significantly from one another and from the printed editions, so that the claim…
Ockham on self-reference.
It seems now to be the accepted view that Oekham's reply to the Liar paradox consisted of a rejection of self-reference across the board. 1 I think that accepted view is wrong.On the contrary, Ockham allowed selfreference in all but exceptional cases.The accepted view is based on two passages.The first is from Ockham's Summa logicae III, 3, 45, 2 the second from his commentary on Aristotle's Sophistici elenchi. 3 In both texts, we have a situatio…
Ockham's Distinctions between Absolute and Connotative Terms
This notation paper is as intended developed as an by introduction William of to Ockham, the theory especially of ' 'conas notation as develope by William of Ockham, espe ially as in his Summa logicae.1 It is only an introduction to that theory, because it focusses on only the most rudimentary part of it, namely, the distinction between absolute and connotative terms. The paper does two things. First, it tries to clarify several crucial but obscu…
Priority of Analysis and the Predicates of "O"-form Sentences
PRIORITY OF ANALYSIS AND THE PREDICATES OF "0"-FORM SENTENCES In 1970, John J. Swiniarski observed in this journal that there is something peculiar about Ockham's doctrine that the predicates of O-form sentences have confused and distributive supposition.1 In 1973, Gareth Matthews made a similar point.2 In brief, the problem is this: Ockham defines confused and distributive supposition in such a way that a given term in a sentence has confused an…
Some Epistemological Implications of the Burley-Ockham Dispute
SOME EPISTEMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BURLEY-OCKHAM DISPUTE The dispute between Walter Burley and William of Ockham over supposition and signification has been discussed often in the literature .1 For the most part, the philosophical — as distinguished from the textual — side of this discussion has centered on those aspects of the dispute which are based on the metaphysical disagreements between the two men. From this point of view, the main q…
Robert Fland's Insolubilia
Recent research on medieval logic
Logik zwischen Scholastik und Humanismus
Richard Lavenham and the Cambridge Logic
This paper argues that the 14th-century Oxford Carmelite Richard Lavenham was the author of the treatise De syncategorematibus that was used as a textbook in 15th-century Cambridge, a version of which was printed several times in the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the Libellus sophistarum ad usum Cantabrigiensium. The manuscript versions of this treatise differ significantly from one another and from the printed editions, so that the claim…
Les modalités aléthiques selon Ockham
Die Modalbegriffe in den logischen Schriften des Wilhelm von Shyreswood und in anderen Kompendien des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts
William Heytesbury
On "Insoluble" Sentences. Chapter One of Rules for Solving Sophisms
Book Reviews Get access On “Insoluble” Sentences. Chapter One of Rules for Solving Sophisms, By William Heytesbury. (Translated with an Introduction and Study by Paul Vincent Spade.) (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979. Pp. 112.) P. A. Clarke P. A. Clarke Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 122, January 1981, Pages 70–71, https://doi.org/10.23…
The semantics of terms
Medieval philosophers and logicians used the word 'term' (terminus) in several senses, two of which are especially pertinent to this discussion. Strictly speaking, a term is what is subjected to the predicate or predicated of the subject in an ordinary categorical proposition – the subject term or the predicate term, the two ends (termini) of the proposition. In this sense whole phrases may be terms, but only certain sorts of words – nouns, adjec…
Paul of Venice
Richard Lavenham's Treatise Scire
John Wyclif: De Universalibus, Vol. 2: On Universals
Early Medieval Philosophy (480-1150)
Middle Platonism and Neo-Platonism
Ockham, Adams and Connotation
If I had written this book, I could die a happy man. I did not write it, but still I can join mediaevalists everywhere in celebrating its publication. In what follows, I will first discuss the contents of Adams's book (Section I), its intended audience (Section II), and some defects in the actual production of the volumes (Section III). Then I will turn to theoretical matters, and discuss certain difficulties and suggestions I find in Ockham's th…
Quodlibetal Questions
The Logic of " Sit Verum " in Richard Brinkley and William of Ockham
The Logic of «SIT VERUM" in RICHARD BRINKLEY and WILLIAM OF OCKHAM Introduction In 1980, Gedeon Gal and Rega Wood first called scholars' attention to Richard Brinkley, the author of a Summa logicae written perhaps sometime between 1360 and 1373.1 Recently, Gordon A. Wilson and I published an edition of the final treatise from this Summa logicae, Brinkley's Obligationes (see n. 1). The present paper will explore one strand of this treatise, Brinkl…
The Cambridge companion to Ockham
Ockhams' Nominalist Metaphysics
The first thing one learns about William of Ockham's philosophy is usually that he was a "nominalist." But sometimes it is not explained just what Ockham's nominalism was. For medieval nominalism, like its modern namesake, took many sometimes surprising forms.
Walter Burley on The Kinds of Simple Supposition
Au-dela des differences metaphysiques et semantiques qui distinguent Walter Burley et Guillaume d'Ockham sur la question de la theorie medievale de la supposition, partagee entre une theorie de la reference et une theorie des singuliers, l'A. etudie les divisions et subdivisions de la supposition simple etablies par Walter Burley dans son traite «De suppositionibus» (1302) et «De puritate artis logicae tractacus longior» (1327), ainsi que dans so…
On the Purity of the Art of Logic
"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 are based on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected by Spade on the basis of one of the surviving manuscript…
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