Title :

Intentionality and Truth-Making: Augustine's Influence on Burley's and Wyclif's Propositional Semantics

Author(s) :

Cesalli, Laurent [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Journal title :

Vivarium

Pages :

283-297

Publisher :

Brill Academic Publishers

Publication date :

2007

ISSN :

0042-7543

English keyword(s) :

semantics
ontology
realism
intentionality
truth-making
medieval philosophy

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

English abstract : [en]

Walter Burley (1275-c.1344) and John Wyclif (1328-1384) follow two clearly stated doctrinal options: on the one hand, they are realists and, on the other, they defend a correspondence theory of truth that involves specifi ...
Show more >Walter Burley (1275-c.1344) and John Wyclif (1328-1384) follow two clearly stated doctrinal options: on the one hand, they are realists and, on the other, they defend a correspondence theory of truth that involves specifi c correlates for true propositions, in short: truth-makers. Both characteristics are interdependent: such a conception of truth requires a certain kind of ontology. Th is study shows that a) in their explanation of what it means for a proposition to be true, Burley and Wyclif both develop what we could call a theory of intentionality in order to explain the relation that must obtain between the human mind and the truth-makers, and b) that their explanations reach back to Augustine, more precisely to his theory of ocular vision as exposed in the De trinitate IX as well as to his conception of ideas found in the Quaestio de ideis.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

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