Possibility and necessity in the time of Peter Abelard / / by Irene Binini.
This book offers a major reassessment of Peter Abelard's modal logic and theory of modalities, presenting them as far more uniform and consistent than was recognized until now. Irene Binini offers new ways of connecting Abelard's modal views with other parts of his logic, semantics, metaph...
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| Superior document: | Investigating medieval philosophy ; Volume 16 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Investigating medieval philosophy ;
Volume 16. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Early 12th-century debates on modal propositions. The received views on modalities; The grammar and syntax of modal claims; The nature of modalities and the signification of modal terms
- Abelard's modal logic. Abelard on de re and de dicto modalities; The existential import of modal propositions; The logic of modal propositions; Simple and determinate modal propositions
- Abelard on the metaphysics and epistemology of modalities. Natures and modalities; Abelard on the many senses of possibility
- Conclusion.