Buridan's Consequentia
Consequence and Inference Within a Token-Based Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23137299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catarina Dutilh Novaes (0000-0002-7347-3795, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 277-297 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History and Philosophy of Logic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-5340 • E-ISSN: 1464-5149 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01445340500211173 |
| OpenAlex | W2015083941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 15 |
I examine the theory of consequentia of the medieval logician, John Buridan. Buridan advocates a strict commitment to what we now call proposition-tokens as the bearers of truth-value. The analysis of Buridan's theory shows that, within a token-based semantics, amendments to the usual notions of inference and consequence are made necessary, since pragmatic elements disrupt the semantic behaviour of propositions. In my reconstruction of Buridan's theory, I use some of the apparatus of modern two-dimensional semantics, such as two-dimensional matrices and the distinction between the context of formation and the context of evaluation of utterances.
Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Inference · Linguistics · Programming language · Proposition · Security token · Semantics (computer science) · Truth value · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy
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Obligationes
Supposition and Properties of Terms
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Propositions
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy
Treatments of the paradoxes of self-reference
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic
Mysticism
Logic in the Latin Thirteenth Century
Buridan’s Theory of Consequences
Time and Indexicality in Buridan’s Concept of Logical Consequence
Reassessing logical hylomorphism and the demarcation of logical constants
| Citations per year | 0.72 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |