Roberto Pinzani, "The Problem of Universals from Boethius to John of Salisbury "
English | ISBN: 9004371141 | 2018 | 318 pages | PDF | 1180 KB
English | ISBN: 9004371141 | 2018 | 318 pages | PDF | 1180 KB
The problem of universals is one of the main philosophical issues. In this book the author reconstructs the history of the problem considering a selection of medieval representative texts and authors. The source of medieval and postmedieval debate is identified in the Socratic-Platonic survey on the definition of concepts.
In the Categories, Aristotle discusses important topics concerning the relations that exist between logical terms. In particular he establishes a kind of predication principle: categorial terms have a certain predication relation if (and only if) some facts expressed by ordinary sentences hold. The
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