Logic and ontology in the syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby / / by Paul Thom.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bd. 92
• Author: Thom, Paul.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Materials /; Introduction /; Chapter One. Propositions /; Chapter Two. Syllogism /; Chapter Three. Reduction /; Chapter Four. The Assertoric Syllogistic /; Chapter Five. Necessity-Syllogisms /; Chapter Six. Contingency-Syllogisms /; Appendix Kilwardby And Modern Logic /; Bibliography /; Index Of Dubia /; Index Locorum /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281926191; 9786611926199; 9047419596
• ISSN: 0169-8125
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Paul Thom.

One of the earliest 13th-century Latin commentators on Aristotle, Robert Kilwardby (d.1279) is an original logician and an ingenious interpreter. This is the first full-length study of his Prior Analytics commentary, and the first study to work from the medieval manuscripts. Kilwardby interprets Aristotle's syllogistic within a broad ontological context that includes the four causes, and concepts of degrees of perfection. His interpretation aims to preserve Aristotle's theses as correct; and he formulates semantic and syntactic hypotheses that achieve this aim with almost total perfection. The book includes an appendix offering a modern rendering of Kilwardby's original logical ideas.