Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483940
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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A new translation of the treatise which inspired modern developments in logic and semantic theory.

Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521482493
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a center of the Catholic Jansenist movement in seventeenth-century France. Their enormously influential Logic or the Art of Thinking, which went through five editions in their lifetimes, treats topics in logic, language, theory of knowledge and metaphysics, and also articulates the response of "heretical" Jansenist Catholicism to orthodox Catholic and Protestant views on grace, free will and the sacraments. This edition presents a new translation of the text, together with a historical introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Author: Robert Boyle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521567961
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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An important treatise by one of the leading mechanical philosophers of the seventeenth century.

Author: Antoine Arnauld
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and logic
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Author: John N. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351249185
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This book sets out for the first time in English and in the terms of modern logic the semantics of the Port Royal Logic (La Logique ou l’Art de penser, 1662-1685) of Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, perhaps the most influential logic book in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its goal is to explain how the Logic reworks the foundation of pre-Cartesian logic so as to make it compatible with Descartes’ metaphysics. The Logic’s authors forged a new theory of reference based on the medieval notion of objective being, which is essentially the modern notion of intentional content. Indeed, the book’s central aim is to detail how the Logic reoriented semantics so that it centered on the notion of intentional content. This content, which the Logic calls comprehension, consists of an idea’s defining modes. Mechanisms are defined in terms of comprehension that rework earlier explanations of central notions like conceptual inclusion, signification, abstraction, idea restriction, sensation, and most importantly within the Logic’s metatheory, the concept of idea-extension, which is a new technical concept coined by the Logic. Although Descartes is famous for rejecting "Aristotelianism," he says virtually nothing about technical concepts in logic. His followers fill the gap. By putting to use the doctrine of objective being, which had been a relatively minor part of medieval logic, they preserve more central semantic doctrines, especially a correspondence theory of truth. A recurring theme of the book is the degree to which the Logic hews to medieval theory. This interpretation is at odds with what has become a standard reading among French scholars according to which this 16th-century work should be understood as rejecting earlier logic along with Aristotelian metaphysics, and as putting in its place structures more like those of 19th-century class theory.

Author: David Marshall Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108420303
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

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Languages : en
Pages : 248

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