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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / P. Thom -- Introduction / P. Thom -- Chapter One. Propositions / P. Thom -- Chapter Two. Syllogism / P. Thom -- Chapter Three. Reduction / P. Thom -- Chapter Four. The Assertoric Syllogistic / P. Thom -- Chapter Five. Necessity-Syllogisms / P. Thom -- Chapter Six. Contingency-Syllogisms / P. Thom -- Appendix Kilwardby And Modern Logic / P. Thom -- Bibliography / P. Thom -- Index Of Dubia / P. Thom -- Index Locorum / P. Thom -- General Index / P. Thom.