Walter Burley on the simple supposition of singular terms

DOI10.1023/A:1005770201116MaRDI QIDQ1286621zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Vincent Spade

Publication date 28 March 2000

Published in Topoi (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005770201116

zbMATH Keywords

BurleyOckhamsimple suppositionsuppositionuniversal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

Supposition is tied to the meaning given to words or terms in logic. Author revises his view of Burley's simple supposition. Personal supposition means the word `Socrates' stand for a particular person. Simple supposition means that the word `men' may stand for the common nature of all humans, or for the universal concept of humanness as held in the mind. The new variant is that both Ockham and Burley take simple supposition to refer to individuals, but one concrete in the world (Burley) and the other in the mind (Ockham). Neither are committed to reference to a universal, either concrete or mental.

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