John Buridan / Gyula Klima.

Author/creator Klima, Gyula
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 352 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGreat medieval thinkers
Great medieval thinkers. ^A415000
Contents Buridan's life, works, and influence -- Buridan's logic and the medieval logical tradition -- The primacy of mental language -- The various kinds of concepts and the idea of a mental language -- Natural language and the idea of a "formal syntax" in Buridan -- Existential import and the Square of opposition -- Ontological commitment -- The properties of terms (proprietates terminorum) -- The semantics of propositions -- Logical validity in a token-based, semantically closed logic -- The possibility of scientific knowledge -- Buridan's anti-skepticism -- Buridan's essentialist nominalism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 329-344) and index.
LCCN 2007040451
ISBN9780195176223 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0195176227 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780195176230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0195176235 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks B765.B844 K55 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold