Paul Thom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1307129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Thom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Thom |
| SIGNATURE | THOM P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4168-4544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Robert Kilwardby’s Science of Logic
Paul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains …
Robert Kilwardby's Science of Logic
Paul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on "that in virtue of which" the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explain…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
This volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions and shows that they were in fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries. A series of chapters by both established and younger scholars covers the whole period including early and late developments, and offers new insights in…
Avicenna's Deliverance Logic Translation and notes by Asad Q. Ahmed
This book presents the first ever English translation of the logic part of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Najāt (Deliverance), one of Avicenna’s major early works on logic. The translation, by Asad Q. Ahmed, will be warmly welcomed by scholars working on the history of logic, especially those not familiar with the Arabic language. Avicenna is one of the great writers on logic, and readers who have a taste for this discipline will find both pleasure and know…
On Formalizing The Logics Of The Past
Aristotle's project in de Interpretatione is to establish the character of one of the two relationships upon which his account of valid inference will be based. The relationship, that is, that holds between propositions which are such that it is not possible for them to be true together. De Interpretatione , then, is concerned to locate pairs of propositions which are opposed in that they cannot be true together. This chapter reviews the importan…
The logic of the Trinity
Aesthetics of Opera
An inclusive sense of 'opera' is distinguished from the Western high-art sense. The problem of aesthetic unity in opera is discussed in relation to (i) hybrid art forms (Kivy's idea of antithetical arts, Levinson's account of hybridity, and Ridley's critique of it); (ii) specific operatic styles (Hegel on Handel and Rossini, Kerman, Kivy and Davies on Mozart, Goehr and Magee on Wagner); (iii) individual operatic productions and performances (Tann…
Abharī on the Logic of Conjunctive Terms
The Persian philosopher A t īr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. 1265), in his Revealing Thoughts , sketches out several different logics of propositions containing complex terms such as ‘writing man’. I will outline his results and the criticisms of them made by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) in his Setting the Scale for an Evaluation of “Revealing Thoughts” , and I will compare Abharī’s various logics of complex terms with modern treatments
Al-Fārābī on Indefinite and Privative Names
In his Short Treatise and his Commentary on the Peri hermeneias , al-Fārābī offers two different but related accounts of indefinite terms and the propositions that contain them. In both works he presents a series of different senses that an indefinite term may have, commencing with a sense in which such a term would be equivalent to a privative term, and concluding with a sense in which it would determine the logical complement of the correspondi…
Logic and Ontology in the Syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby
The Interpretation of Music in Performance
Musical performance, as an interpretive activity, has to be understood as relative to the material that is being interpreted. This material may or may not have the determinacy, fixity, and definitiveness of a work. Performative interpretation cannot be identified simply with what performers add to the material being performed. However, if interpretation is the assigning of significance, then in applying certain (theatrical, rhetorical, and biolog…
The Logic of Essentialism
The two barbaras
This paper examines three recent discussions of Aristotle's system of syllogisms with apodeictic and assertoric premisses. Though they contain no cross-references, and though they arrive at disparate interpretations, all three pieces share a common aim. That aim is to construct an intuitively graspable interpretation of Aristotle's modal syllogistic which is based on metaphysical considerations. I argue that none of these authors has succeeded in…
The Syllogism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Syllogism. By Paxil Thom. (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1981. Pp. 312. Price Dm 128,00) The Place of Syllogistic in logical Theory. By Michael Clark. (Nottingham: Nottingham U.P., 1981. Pp. ix + 151. Price £3.00) Peter M. Simons Peter M. Simons Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 127, April 1982, Pages 175–177, https://doi…
Termini Obliqui and the Logic of Relations
The Interpretation of Music in Performance
Musical performance, as an interpretive activity, has to be understood as relative to the material that is being interpreted. This material may or may not have the determinacy, fixity, and definitiveness of a work. Performative interpretation cannot be identified simply with what performers add to the material being performed. However, if interpretation is the assigning of significance, then in applying certain (theatrical, rhetorical, and biolog…
Termini Obliqui and the Logic of Relations
The Syllogism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Syllogism. By Paxil Thom. (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1981. Pp. 312. Price Dm 128,00) The Place of Syllogistic in logical Theory. By Michael Clark. (Nottingham: Nottingham U.P., 1981. Pp. ix + 151. Price £3.00) Peter M. Simons Peter M. Simons Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 127, April 1982, Pages 175–177, https://doi…
The two barbaras
This paper examines three recent discussions of Aristotle's system of syllogisms with apodeictic and assertoric premisses. Though they contain no cross-references, and though they arrive at disparate interpretations, all three pieces share a common aim. That aim is to construct an intuitively graspable interpretation of Aristotle's modal syllogistic which is based on metaphysical considerations. I argue that none of these authors has succeeded in…
The Logic of Essentialism
The Interpretation of Music in Performance
Musical performance, as an interpretive activity, has to be understood as relative to the material that is being interpreted. This material may or may not have the determinacy, fixity, and definitiveness of a work. Performative interpretation cannot be identified simply with what performers add to the material being performed. However, if interpretation is the assigning of significance, then in applying certain (theatrical, rhetorical, and biolog…
Logic and Ontology in the Syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby
Al-Fārābī on Indefinite and Privative Names
In his Short Treatise and his Commentary on the Peri hermeneias , al-Fārābī offers two different but related accounts of indefinite terms and the propositions that contain them. In both works he presents a series of different senses that an indefinite term may have, commencing with a sense in which such a term would be equivalent to a privative term, and concluding with a sense in which it would determine the logical complement of the correspondi…
Abharī on the Logic of Conjunctive Terms
The Persian philosopher A t īr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. 1265), in his Revealing Thoughts , sketches out several different logics of propositions containing complex terms such as ‘writing man’. I will outline his results and the criticisms of them made by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 1274) in his Setting the Scale for an Evaluation of “Revealing Thoughts” , and I will compare Abharī’s various logics of complex terms with modern treatments
On Formalizing The Logics Of The Past
Aristotle's project in de Interpretatione is to establish the character of one of the two relationships upon which his account of valid inference will be based. The relationship, that is, that holds between propositions which are such that it is not possible for them to be true together. De Interpretatione , then, is concerned to locate pairs of propositions which are opposed in that they cannot be true together. This chapter reviews the importan…
The logic of the Trinity
Aesthetics of Opera
An inclusive sense of 'opera' is distinguished from the Western high-art sense. The problem of aesthetic unity in opera is discussed in relation to (i) hybrid art forms (Kivy's idea of antithetical arts, Levinson's account of hybridity, and Ridley's critique of it); (ii) specific operatic styles (Hegel on Handel and Rossini, Kerman, Kivy and Davies on Mozart, Goehr and Magee on Wagner); (iii) individual operatic productions and performances (Tann…
Avicenna's Deliverance Logic Translation and notes by Asad Q. Ahmed
This book presents the first ever English translation of the logic part of Avicenna’s Kitab al-Najāt (Deliverance), one of Avicenna’s major early works on logic. The translation, by Asad Q. Ahmed, will be warmly welcomed by scholars working on the history of logic, especially those not familiar with the Arabic language. Avicenna is one of the great writers on logic, and readers who have a taste for this discipline will find both pleasure and know…
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
This volume, the first dedicated and comprehensive companion to medieval logic, covers both the Latin and the Arabic traditions and shows that they were in fact sister traditions, which both arose against the background of a Hellenistic heritage and which influenced one another over the centuries. A series of chapters by both established and younger scholars covers the whole period including early and late developments, and offers new insights in…
Robert Kilwardby’s Science of Logic
Paul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains …
Robert Kilwardby's Science of Logic
Paul Thom's book presents Kilwardby's science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on "that in virtue of which" the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explain…
Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)