Medieval Supposition Theory Revisited

Egbert P. Bos, Ph. D. (1980), Leiden University, the editor of this volume, is emeritus Professor of Medieval Logic and Semantics at that university. He has published text-editions and articles on medieval logic and semantics, especially of tracts of the fourteenth century.

Preface ... 1
E.P. Bos and B.G. Sundholm, Introduction ... 3

Early Supposition Theory in General
L.M. de Rijk, Semantics and Ontology. An Assessment of Medieval Terminism ... 13
Sten Ebbesen, Early Supposition Theory II ... 60

Arabic Philosophy
Allan Back, Avicenna’s Theory of Supposition ... 81

XIIth Century
Luisa Valente, Supposition Theory and Porretan Theology: Summa Zwettlensis and Dialogus Ratii et Everardi ... 119

XIIIth Century
Mary Sirridge, Supposition and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech in the Abstractiones ... 147
Julie Brumberg-Chaumont, The Role of Discrete Terms in the Theory of the Properties of Terms ... 169
Dafne Mure, Suppositum between Logic and Metaphysics: Simon of Faversham and his Contemporaries (1270-1290) ... 205

XIVth Century
Costantino Marmo, Scotus on Supposition ... 233
Simo Knuuttila, Supposition and Predication in Medieval Trinitarian Logic ... 260
Laurent Cesalli, Richard Brinkley on Supposition ... 275
Alessandro D. Conti, Semantic and Ontological Aspects of Wyclif ’s Theory of Supposition ... 304
Fabrizio Amerini, Thomas Aquinas and Some Italian Dominicans (Francis of Prato, Georgius Rovegnatinus and Girolamo Savonarola) on Signification and Supposition ... 327
Catarina Dutilh Novaes, The Role of ‘Denotatur’ in Ockham’s Theory of Supposition ... 352
Claude Panaccio, Ockham and Buridan on Simple Supposition ... 371
E. Jennifer Ashworth, Descent and Ascent from Ockham to Domingo de Soto: An Answer to Paul Spade ... 385
Ernesto Perini-Santos, When the Inference ‘p is true, therefore p’Fails: John Buridan on the Evaluation of Propositions ... 411

XV-XVI-XVIIth Centuries
Angel d’ Ors, Logic in Salamanca in the Fifteenth Century. The Tractatus suppositionum terminorum by Master Franquera ... 427
Stephan Meier-Oeser, The Hermeneutical Rehabilitation of Supposition Theory in Seventeenth-Century Protestant Logic ... 464

Logic: Medieval and Modern
Sara L. Uckelman, A Quantified Temporal Logic for Ampliation and Restriction ... 485
Terry Parsons, The Expressive Power of Medieval Logic ... 511

Index ... 523