Book contents
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
4 - Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
Book contents
- Interpreting Buridan
- Interpreting Buridan
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Philosopher as Arts Master
- 2 Principles in Buridan’s Logic of Consequences
- 3 Buridan on Paradox
- 4 Modality and Temporality in Buridan’s Logic
- 5 A Paradigm Change within Medieval Philosophy
- 6 Buridan’s Internalism
- 7 John Buridan on the Ontological Status of Artifacts
- 8 John Buridan on Final Causality
- 9 Female Physiology in John Buridan’s Quaestiones de secretis mulierum
- 10 Buridan on the Value of Emotions
- 11 Buridan on Happiness and the Good Life
- References
- Index
Summary
This essay surveys John Buridan’s writings on logic and temporality, arguing that while Buridan’s earliest writings on the Organon show acceptance of a temporal analysis of modality, Buridan’s later writings reflect a plurality of modalities, two based on the power to falsify, and two based on time.
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- Interpreting BuridanCritical Essays, pp. 51 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024