Meaning And Inference In Medieval Philosophy: Studies In Memory Of Jan Pinborg (synthese Historical Library)

The studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg. His unexpected death in 1982 at the age of forty-five shocked and saddened students of medieval philosophy everywhere and left them with a keen sense of disappoint­ ment. In his fifteen-year career Jan Pinborg had done so much for our field with his more than ninety books, editions, articles, and reviews and had done it all so well that we recognized him as a leader and counted on many more years of his scholarship, his help, and his friendship. To be missed so sorely by his international colleagues in an academic field is a mark of Jan's achievement, but only of one aspect of it, for historians of philosophy are not the only scholars who have reacted in this way to Jan's death. In his decade and a half of intense productivity he also acquired the same sort of special status among historians of linguistics, whose volume of essays in his memory is being G. L. Bursill-Hall almost simultane­ published under the editorship of ously with this one. Sten Ebbesen, Jan's student, colleague, and successor as Director of the Institute of Medieval Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, has earned the gratitude of all of us by memorializing Jan 1 in various biographical sketches, one of which is accompanied by a 2 complete bibliography of his publications. The studies that make up this book were written and brought together to honor the memory of Jan Pinborg. His unexpected death in 1982 at the age of forty-five shocked and saddened students of medieval philosophy everywhere and left them with a keen sense of disappointƯ ment. In his fifteen-year career Jan Pinborg had done so much for our field with his more than ninety books, editions, articles, and reviews and had done it all so well that we recognized him as a leader and counted on many more years of his scholarship, his help, and his friendship. To be missed so sorely by his international colleagues in an academic field is a mark of Jan's achievement, but only of one aspect of it, for historians of philosophy are not the only scholars who have reacted in this way to Jan's death. In his decade and a half of intense productivity he also acquired the same sort of special status among historians of linguistics, whose volume of essays in his memory is being G.L. Bursill-Hall almost simultaneƯ published under the editorship of ously with this one. Sten Ebbesen, Jan's student, colleague, and successor as Director of the Institute of Medieval Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Copenhagen, has earned the gratitude of all of us by memorializing Jan 1 in various biographical sketches, one of which is accompanied by a 2 complete bibliography of his publications Front Matter....Pages i-xii On Boethius’s Notion of Being....Pages 1-29 Logic in the Early Twelfth Century....Pages 31-55 The Distinction Actus Exercitus/Actus Significatus in Medieval Semantics....Pages 57-90 Denomination in Peter of Auvergne....Pages 91-106 Concrete Accidental Terms: Late Thirteenth-Century Debates about Problems Relating to Such Terms as ‘ Album ’....Pages 107-174 Concrete Accidental Terms and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech....Pages 175-185 The Logic of the Categorical: The Medieval Theory of Descent and Ascent....Pages 187-224 Tu Scis Hoc Esse Omne Quod Est Hoc : Richard Kilvington and the Logic of Knowledge....Pages 225-245 Logic and Trinitarian Theology De Modo Predicandi AC Sylogizandi in Divinis ....Pages 247-295 A Seventeenth-Century Physician on God and Atoms: Sebastian Basso....Pages 297-369 Back Matter....Pages 371-400