Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Sophisms as a Genre

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Resoluble, Exponible, and Officiable Terms in the Sophistria of Petrus Olai, MS Uppsala C 599

      • Robert Andrews

      Pages 3-30

   3. Ferrybridge’s Logica: A Handbook for solving Sophismata

      • Mario Bertagna

      Pages 31-44

   4. Boethius de Dacia et al. The sophismata in MSS Bruges SB 509 and Florence Med.-Laur. S. Croce 12 sin., 3

      • Sten Ebbesen

      Pages 45-63

   5. Orléans 266 and the Sophismata Collection: Master Joscelin of Soissons and the infinite words in the early twelfth century

      • C. H. Kneepkens

      Pages 64-85

   6. The ‘Sophismata’ attributed to Marsilius of Padua

      • Roberto Lambertini

      Pages 86-102

   7. The Sophism ‘Omnis propositio est vera vel falsa’ by Henry Hopton (Pseudo-Heytesbury’s ‘De veritate et falsitate propositionis’)

      • Alfonso Maierù

      Pages 103-115

   8. Die Rolle der Sophismata im Unterricht der Krakauer Universität im 15. Jahrhundert

      • Mieczysław Markowski

      Pages 116-127

   9. The Sophismata Asinina of William Heytesbury

      • Fabienne Pironet

      Pages 128-143

   10. A Comparative Analysis of the Treatment of Sophisms in MSS Digby 2 and Royal 12 of the Magister Abstractionum

       • Paul A. Streveler

       Pages 144-184

   11. ‘Omnis phoenix est’: Quantification and Existence in a new sophismata-collection (MS Clm 14522)

       • Andrea Tabarroni

       Pages 185-201

   12. Expositio as a method of solving sophisms

       • Mikko Yrjönsuuri

       Pages 202-216

3. Grammatical Sophisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Grammatical sophisms in collections of logical sophisms: ‘Amatus sum’ in BN. lat. 16135

      • Christine Brousseau-Beuermann

      Pages 219-230

   3. La distinction entre actus exercitus et actus significatus dans les sophismes grammaticaux du MS BN lat. 16618 et autres textes apparentés

      • Irène Rosier

      Pages 231-261

   4. Interest mea et imperatoris castam ducere in uxorem: Can ‘est’ be used impersonally?

      • Mary Sirridge

      Pages 262-274

4. Logical Sophisms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275

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   2. Who is the worthiest of them all?

      • Allan Bäck

      Pages 277-287

   3. Albert de Saxe et les sophismes de l’infini

      • Joël Biard

      Pages 288-303

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973. Since then, meetings have grown in size and have been held in Leyden, Copenhagen, Nijmegen, Rome, Oxford, Poitiers and Freiburg­ am-Breisgau. The ninth Symposium was held in St Andrews in June 1990, with 57 participants who listened to addresses by 28 speakers. It was very fitting that Scotland's oldest university, founded in the heyday of medievalleaming in 1411, should have been given the chance to bring together scholars from all over Europe and beyond to present their researches on the glorious past of scholastic rational thought. The topic of the Symposium was "Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar". The present volume consists, for the most part, of the papers presented at the Symposium. In fact, however, it proved impossible to include five of the contributions. Two of the papers included here were intended for the Symposium but in the event not delivered, because of the unavoidable absence of the speakers. The Symposium received very helpful financial support from one of the major philosophical associations in Britain, the Mind Association, from the Philosophical Quarterly, a journal published at St Andrews, from the University of St Andrews, from the British Academy, and from Low and Bonarplc. In organising the programme for the conference and in preparing the papers for publication I received invaluable help from: Professor E.J.

• 15th century
• Europe
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Jean-Jaques Rousseau
• Medieval Literature
• William of Ockham
• genre
• grammar
• logic
• manuscripts
• medieval Logic
• organ
• proposition
• semantic
• sophism

• University of St Andrews, Scotland

  Stephen Read

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