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We present Prior’s discussion of a puzzle about valditity found in the writings of the fourteenth-century French logician Jean Buridan and show how Prior’s study of this puzzle may have provided the conceptual inspiration for his development of hybrid logic.
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The author wishes to thank Peter Øhrstrøm for the invitation to write this paper, and Benedikt Löwe for encouraging investigation of this topic. The author was partially funded by the project “Dialogical Foundations of Semantics” (DiFoS) in the ESF EuroCoRes programme LogICCC (LogICCC-FP004; DN 231-80-002; CN 2008/08314/GW).
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Uckelman, S.L. Prior on an insolubilium of Jean Buridan. Synthese 188, 487–498 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-011-9940-6
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