Logic and Ontology in the Syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby

Paul Thom

Logic and Ontology in the Syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
Published
26 March 2007
Pages
316
ISBN
9789004157958

Logic and Ontology in the Syllogistic of Robert Kilwardby

Paul Thom

One of the earliest 13th-century Latin commentators on Aristotle, Robert Kilwardby (d.1279) is an original logician and an ingenious interpreter. This is the first full-length study of his Prior Analytics commentary, and the first study to work from the medieval manuscripts. Kilwardby interprets Aristotle’s syllogistic within a broad ontological context that includes the four causes, and concepts of degrees of perfection. His interpretation aims to preserve Aristotle’s theses as correct; and he formulates semantic and syntactic hypotheses that achieve this aim with almost total perfection. The book includes an appendix offering a modern rendering of Kilwardby’s original logical ideas.

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