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Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic
Eleonore Stump
Cornell University Press ITHACA AND LONDON
Dialectic and Its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic
TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY ELEONORE STUMP
Boethius's "De topicis differentiis" Boethius's "In Ciceronis Topica"
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Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
ix 1
1 Dialectic and Aristotle's Topics
11 ^
2 Dialectic and Boethius's De topicis differentiis
31
3 Between Aristotle and Boethius
57
4 Topics and Hypothetical Syllogisms in Garlandus Compotista
67
5 Abelard on the Topics
89
6 Logic in the Early Twelfth Century
111
7 Terminist Logicians on the Topics
135
8 Consequences and the Decline of Aristotelianism in Formal Logic
157
9 William of Sherwood's Treatise on Obligations
177
10 Walter Burley on Obligations
195
11 Roger Swyneshed's Theory of Obligations
215
12 Topics, Consequences, and Obligations in Ockham's
Summa logicae Index
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