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Formal Approaches and Natural Language in Medieval Logic

Formal Approaches and Natural Language in Medieval Logic

Goubier, Frederic
de Libera, Alain
Cesalli, Laurent

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Series: Textes Et Etudes Du Moyen Age, Book 82

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ISBN10: 2503567355
ISBN13: 9782503567358
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 538
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: French
Is medieval logic formal? And if yes, in what sense? There are striking affinities between medieval and contemporary theories of language. Authors from the two periods share formal ambitions and maintain complex, and at time uneasy, relations with natural language. However, modern scholars became careful not to overlook the specificities of theories developed more than five hundred years apart, in particular with respect to their 'formal' character. In 1972, Alfonso Maieru noted that the efforts of medieval logicians to identify logical structures in language formal enough to become objects of scientific consideration. He also stressed that the language investigated is a historical one, Latin, so that one can legitimately wonder to which extent ... one is allowed to speak of 'formal logic' in the middle ages. In other words, medieval logic is characterized by a tension between 'formalist ambitions' and constraints proper to natural language. Today, our knowledge of the field has considerably expanded, calling for a new assessment of the question.

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