Summary: | This is a study of an Oxford logic manual (without title) printed around 1483, which contains a number of treatises. Ashworth distinguishes three groups: (1) semantic and physical treatises (by, among others, Roger Swyneshed, Thomas Bradwardine, and Albert of Saxony); (2) the bulk of Paul of Venice's Logica Parva ("The use made of Paul of Venice is particularly interesting, because it shows that Paul, who was so influenced by his stay at Oxford in the 1390s, himself influenced Oxford nearly a century later. It is curious that no acknowledgement is made, especially as Paul is referred to explicity in the section on predicaments", p.94); (3) treatises summarizing and commenting on Aristotle's Organon, taken from Buridan's Summulae logicales. The author offerts an analytic account of the contents of this Oxford Logica, covering the following subjects: terms and propositions; predicables; predicaments; supposition; proofs of terms; the Prior Analytics; consequences; obligations; topics; fallacies; demonstration; insolubles; proportions; velocity.
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