By Paul Vincent Spade
The Franciscan William of Ockham was once an English medieval thinker, theologian, and political theorist. Ockham is critical not just within the heritage of philosophy and theology, but additionally within the improvement of early sleek technological know-how and of contemporary notions of estate rights and church-state kinfolk. This quantity bargains a whole dialogue of all major features of Ockham's idea: common sense, philosophy of language, metaphysics and ordinary philosophy, epistemology, ethics, motion thought, political inspiration and theology. it's the first research of Ockham in any language to make complete use of the hot serious variants of his works, and to think about fresh discoveries referring to his lifestyles, schooling, and affects.
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The predicate term is always affected by the mode of the copula in this way. Now there are formal relations among modally affected terms. All Cambridge Companions Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Some Aspects of Ockham’s Logic 49 things that are necessarily a are a and all a are possibly a. All things that are contingently a are a. The converses do not hold. Again all things that are contingently a are contingently non-a, and the converse does hold. If I understand correctly Ockham’s analysis of the syllogistic with all sentences in the divided sense, it can be obtained by treating ‘a,’ ‘things that are necessarily a,’ ‘things that are contingently a,’ and ‘things that are possibly a’ as distinct terms related by the logical relations just cataloged and treating a modal sentence in the divided sense as an assertoric sentence with the appropriately modal predicate term and the appropriate subject term.
Ockham’s semantical theory, as presented in SL and elsewhere, is primarily an explication of the various ways in which the natural conceptual signs that constitute the language of thought are linked with their external referents; and secondarily, of the ways in which conventional discourse is derived from this mental language. The theory of signification and other semantical properties such as connotation or supposition thus turn out to be essential, in Ockham’s framework, to understanding the intellectual working of the mind.
A term has material supposition when it stands in a sentence for itself or a related term. The device of quotation was just being invented in Ockham’s time, and material supposition does much of the same work. There are differences though; for example, it is the same term (and not a name of that term) that has material supposition as has personal, and there is no way of iterating material supposition as there is of iterating quotation marks. If we take signification as a primitive relation in Ockham’s semantics we could, perhaps, define supposition using no other semantic relation.
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