Lies, Language and Logic in the Late Middle Ages

Paul Vincent Spade

Contents: Preface; Recent research on medieval logic; The origins of the medieval insolubilia-literature; Ockham on self-reference; Insolubilia and Bardwardine’s theory of signification, William Heytesbury’s position on insolubles; John Buridan on the liar; Roger Swyneshed’s Insolubilia; Roger Swyneshed’s theory of Insolubilia; Ockham’s rule of supposition; Some epistemological implications of the Burley-Ockham dispute; Ockham’s distinctions between absolute and connotative terms; Priority of analysis and the predicates of O-form sentences; Synonymy and evocation in Ockham’s mental language; Ockham on terms of first and second imposition and intention; Les modalités aléthiques selon Ockham; Swyneshed’s Obligationes; Three theories of obligationes: Burley, Kilvington and Swyneshed on counterfactual reasoning; Addenda; Index.