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Philosophical Papers and Letters
A Selection
Av G.W. Leibniz
Inbunden, 1975
4100 kr
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The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways: first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual powers; second, by inviting a fresher …
Proceedings of the Third International Kant Congress
Held at the University of Rochester, March 30–April 4, 1970
Av L.W. Beck
Inbunden, 1971
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The Third International Kant Congress met at the University of Rochester from March 30 through April 4, 1970. Over two hundred students of Kant's philosophy from Europe, Africa, and North and South America attended. The Congress was organized by a Committee consisting of Gottfried Martin of the …
Theory of Science
A Selection, with an Introduction
Av B. Bolzano, Jan Berg
Inbunden, 1973
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The present selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837) of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) aims at giving a compact view of his main ideas in logic, semantics, epistemology and the methodology of science. These ideas are analyzed from a modern point of view in the Introduction. Furthermore, …
Patterns in Plato’s Thought
Papers arising out of the 1971 West Coast Greek Philosophy Conference
Inbunden, 1973
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In his teachings and through his choice of the dialogue-form as a mode of communication, Plato emphasized the communal aspect of intellectual work. The need for having a community work together is nowhere more apparent then when the intellectual task set is that of interpreting the ancient …
Propositional Logic of Avicenna
A Translation from al-Shifāʾ: al-Qiyās with Introduction, Commentary and Glossary
Av Avicenna
Inbunden, 1973
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The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con ditional propositions and syllogisms. The text is that of A vicenna (Abu represents his views on the subject as they were held throughout his life.
Commentary on De Grammatico
The Historical-Logical Dimensions of a Dialogue of St. Anselm’s
Inbunden, 1974
2161 kr
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The intent of the present work is chiefly the presentation of a running commentary, preponderantly historical in complexion, on the detail of the text of St. Anselm's dialogue De Grammatico. At the same time the making intelligible of that text has demanded the concurrent proffering of logical …
Ancient Logic and Its Modern Interpretations
Proceedings of the Buffalo Symposium on Modernist Interpretations of Ancient Logic, 21 and 22 April, 1972
Av J. Corcoran
Inbunden, 1974
1084 kr
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During the last half century there has been revolutionary progress in logic and in logic-related areas such as linguistics. HistoricaI knowledge of the origins of these subjects has also increased significantly. Thus, it would seem that the problem of determining the extent to which ancient logical …
Language and Logic in the Post-Medieval Period
Inbunden, 1974
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Keckermann remarked of the sixteenth century, "never from the begin ning of the world was there a period so keen on logic, or in which more books on logic were produced and studies oflogic flourished more abun dantly than the period-in which we live. " 1 But despite the great profusion of books …
Evolution of the Euclidean Elements
A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry
Av W.R. Knorr
Inbunden, 1974
4100 kr
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The present work has three principal objectives: (1) to fix the chronology of the development of the pre-Euclidean theory of incommensurable magnitudes beginning from the first discoveries by fifth-century Pythago reans, advancing through the achievements of Theodorus of Cyrene, Theaetetus, …
De Dialectica
Av Jan Pinborg
Inbunden, 1975
1084 kr
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I first became interested in De dialectica in 1966, while I was doing re search on Augustine's knowledge of logic. At the time I made a transla tion of the Maurist text and included it as an appendix to my doctoral dissertation (Yale, 1967). In 1971 I thoroughly revised the translation on the …
Philosophical Papers and Letters
A Selection
Av G.W. Leibniz
Häftad, 1975
4316 kr
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The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways: first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual powers; second, by inviting a fresher …
Beginnings of Greek Mathematics
Av A. Szabó
Inbunden, 1978
2484 kr
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When this book was first published, more than five years ago, I added an appendix on How the Pythagoreans discovered Proposition 11.5 of the 'Elements'. I hoped that this appendix, although different in some ways from the rest of the book, would serve to illustrate the kind of research which needs …
Juan Luis Vives Against the Pseudodialecticians
A Humanist Attack on Medieval Logic
Av R. Guerlac
Inbunden, 1979
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The humanist treatises presented here are only peripheral to the history of logic, but I think historians of logic may read them with interest, if perhaps with irritation. In the early sixteenth century the humanists set about to demolish medieval logic based on syllogistic and disputation, and to …
Peter of Ailly: Concepts and Insolubles
An Annotated Translation
Av P.V. Spade
Inbunden, 1980
1084 kr
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2 Peter of Aillyl wrote his Concepts and Insolubles, according to the best 3 estimate, in 1372. He was at that time only about twenty-two years old. He was born around 1350" in Compiegne in the De de France, although his 5 family name associates him with the village of Ailly in Picardy. In 1364 he …
Reforging the Great Chain of Being
Studies of the History of Modal Theories
Inbunden, 1980
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A sports reporter might say that in a competition all the participants realize their potentialities or possibilities. When an athlete performs far below his usual standard, it can be said that it was possible for him to do better. But the idea of fair play requires that this use of 'possible' …
Nicomachean Ethics
Translation with Commentaries and Glossary
Häftad, 1980
546 kr
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The principles used in the translation of the Ethics are the same as those in the translations of the Physics and the Metaphysics, and their main function is to help the reader get Aristotle's meaning as accurately as possible. Briefly, they are principles of terminology and of thought, some of …
Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy
A Contribution to the Study of Conceptual Structures
Av E.M. Barth
Häftad, 1981
546 kr
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When the original Dutch version of this book was presented in 1971 to the University of Leiden as a thesis for the Doctorate in philosophy, I was prevented by the academic mores of that university from expressing my sincere thanks to three members of the Philosophical Faculty for their support of …
Sense and Contradiction: A Study in Aristotle
Av R.M. Dancy
Häftad, 1980
546 kr
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This study began as a paper. It got out of hand. It had help doing that. Oswaldo Chateaubriand, Ronald Haver, Paul Horwich, Bernie Katz, Norman Kretzmann, Stanley Martens, Stephen Pink, Michael Stokes, Eleanor Stump, Bill Ulrich, Celia Wolf, and a lot of other people questioned or criticized or …
Evolution of the Euclidean Elements
A Study of the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes and Its Significance for Early Greek Geometry
Av W.R. Knorr
Häftad, 1980
4100 kr
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The present work has three principal objectives: (1) to fix the chronology of the development of the pre-Euclidean theory of incommensurable magnitudes beginning from the first discoveries by fifth-century Pythago reans, advancing through the achievements of Theodorus of Cyrene, Theaetetus, …
Space and Incongruence
The Origin of Kant’s Idealism
Av J.V. Buroker
Inbunden, 1981
1084 kr
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Kantian transcendental idealism is the thesis that fundamental aspects of experience are contributed by the perceiving subject rather than by the things experienced, and are not features of things as they exist independently of sensible perceivers. This is undoubtedly the most striking and at the …
Semantics of John Stuart Mill
Av W.R. de Jong
Inbunden, 1982
1623 kr
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The original, Dutch version of this book served in 1979 as a doctoral disserta tion in philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam. In this preface to the - slightly revised - English translation, I wish once again to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Prof. J. van der Hoeven of the Free …
René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
Translated, with Explanatory Notes
Inbunden, 1982
2377 kr
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Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this attempt, there can be no doubt that it was …
Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy
Islamic, Jewish and Christian Perspectives
Inbunden, 1984
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René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy
Translated, with Explanatory Notes
Häftad, 1984
2377 kr
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Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible. Whatever the success of this attempt, there can be no doubt that it was …
On Maxima and Minima
Chapter 5 of Rules for Solving Sophismata, with an anonymous fourteenth-century discussion
Inbunden, 1984
1084 kr
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This book began with my edition of the anonymous treatise. A translation and notes seemed essential if the material of the treatise was to be understood. It then seemed that Chapter 5 of Heytesbury's Rules for Solving Sophismata, on which the treatise was based, should also be included. My …
Jean Buridan’s Logic
The Treatise on Supposition The Treatise on Consequences
Inbunden, 1985
1623 kr
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Buridan was a brilliant logician in an age of brilliant logicians, sensitive to formal and philosophical considerations. There is a need for critical editions and accurate translations of his works, for his philosophical voice speaks directly across the ages to problems of concern to analytic …
Logic of Being
Historical Studies
Av Simo Knuuttila, Jaakko Hintikka
Häftad, 1987
3023 kr
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The last twenty years have seen remarkable developments in our understanding of how the ancient Greek thinkers handled the general concept of being and its several varieties. The most general examination of the meaning of the Greek verb 'esti'/'einai'/'on' both in common usage and in the …
Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley
Av E. Sosa
Inbunden, 1986
1623 kr
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A tercentenary conference of March, 1985, drew to Newport, Rhode Island, nearly all the most distinguished Berkeley scholars now active. The conference was organized by the International Berkeley Society, with the support of several institutions and many people (whose help is acknowl edged below). …
Adam de Wodeham: Tractatus de Indivisibilibus
A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, and Textual Notes
Av R. Wood
Inbunden, 1988
2161 kr
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The English Franciscan philosopher and theologian, Adam of Wodeham (d. 1358), was a disciple and friend of William of Ockham; he was also a student of Walther Chatton. Nevertheless, he was an independent thinker who did not hesitate to criticize his former teachers - Ockham sporadically and …
