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Roger Bacon was a very important logician in the thirteenth century and he had a profound influence on the development of logic, particularly in Oxford. He developed a theory of signs that had a lasting influence on the medieval and early modern philosophical tradition. The selection here presents his theory as developed in the beginning of On Signs.
Text excerpted from: Maloney, T.S. trans., 2013. On Signs. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, pp. 35-51, 56-62.
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The term “species” as used in this work can mean either the division of a genus, e.g., man with respect to animal, or (as here) the mental representation of things outside the mind, such as images and concepts.…
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See (1973) Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorum I, ed. and trans. H.F. Stewart, E.K. Rand, revised by S.J. Tester, in Boethius: The Theological Tractates (London and Cambridge).
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The Latin word for egg is “ovum” and it is spelled the same when used as the subject of a sentence or when it is the direct object of a verb. The Latin for horn is “cornu” and it is spelled the same in all grammatical cases.
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Klima, G. (2017). Roger Bacon. In: Cameron, M., Hill, B., Stainton, R. (eds) Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language. Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26908-5_14
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