John Buridan on the Syllogism and His Departure from Radulphus Brito
Mora Marquez, Ana Maria LU
(2024)
In Documenti e studii sulla tradizione filosofica medievale
35.
p.233-254
- Abstract
- This paper analyses John Buridan’s approach to the notion of syllogism by putting it in the institutional and doctrinal contexts where he belongs, that is, the faculty of arts of the University of Paris and its Aristotelian logical tradition. The analysis aims to ascertain Buridan’s innovative contribution to the history of logic by underscoring the points of continuation and rupture with respect to Radulphus Brito, the imme- diately preceding Parisian master whose Aristotelian logic is available to us. The con- clusion points to Buridan’s unprecedented syncretism of Aristotelian and terminist logic in the Parisian tradition, which provides a framework to his departure from Brito’s pragmatic approach to the notion of syllogism. I propose... (More)
- This paper analyses John Buridan’s approach to the notion of syllogism by putting it in the institutional and doctrinal contexts where he belongs, that is, the faculty of arts of the University of Paris and its Aristotelian logical tradition. The analysis aims to ascertain Buridan’s innovative contribution to the history of logic by underscoring the points of continuation and rupture with respect to Radulphus Brito, the imme- diately preceding Parisian master whose Aristotelian logic is available to us. The con- clusion points to Buridan’s unprecedented syncretism of Aristotelian and terminist logic in the Parisian tradition, which provides a framework to his departure from Brito’s pragmatic approach to the notion of syllogism. I propose to interpret this rupture as a crucial step towards the demarcation of logic as a formal discipline that, as John MacFarlane has shown, was first consolidated by Kant. (Less)
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