Argumentationstheorie

Dialectic as the art of disputing for and against a given thesis held a central position at the medieval schools and universities. The papers in this volume focus on a series of questions which were central to scholastic logic - questions concerning the validity of argumentation and proof.

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The papers in this volume - written by well-known experts in the field - examine the rules for valid argument discovered and formulated in the works of medieval scholasticism and show their significance to modern discussions in logic and the philosophy of language. The editor's introductions make the papers interesting and comprehensible even to non-specialists.