Medieval logic as "Sprachphilosophie"

Cesalli, Laurent

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1484/j.bpm.1.102148

Title :

Medieval logic as "Sprachphilosophie"

Author(s) :

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

Journal title :

Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale

Pages :

117-132

Publisher :

Brepols

Publication date :

2010

ISSN :

0068-4023

English keyword(s) :

Medieval logic
philosophy of language
formal logic
Austro-German tradition

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

English abstract : [en]

Historians of medieval logic hardly escape the issue of the nature of their field of investigations. A survey of the literature shows that the answers given to the question of the nature of medieval logic are characterized ...
Show more >Historians of medieval logic hardly escape the issue of the nature of their field of investigations. A survey of the literature shows that the answers given to the question of the nature of medieval logic are characterized by two negative features: first, medieval logic is not a unitary discipline; second medieval logic has little to do with modern logic. The medieval technical term 'logica' covers a spectrum of interests which only partly overlaps with the contemporary concept of logic. The resulting image is that what falls under the concept of medieval logic seems to lack any sort of doctrinal unity whatsoever. In what follows, we argue that although medieval logic is indeed all but a unitary discipline, it can nevertheless be shown to possess what might be called a "second order organic unity", provided that it is neither considered as "logic" in the actual sense of the term, nor as "philosophy of language" in the contemporary sense of the expression, but as an anticipating instance of the Sprachphilosophie which emerged at the turn of the 20th century within the Bolzano-Brentanian Austro-German tradition.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

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