Philosophy

Table of Contents - October 1991 - Volume 66, Issue 258  

Articles

Buridan's Bridge

Dale Jacquettea1

a1 The Pennsylvania State University

John Buridan's Sophismata contains some of the most interesting puzzles and paradoxes of any of the many surviving medieval informal logic manuals. Buridan's purpose is not only to illustrate and challenge Aristotelian syllogistic with difficulties of interpretation, but also in part to lay logical philosophical foundations for a radically nominalistic ontology in the tradition of William of Ockham.