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Ex impossibili sequitur quidlibet in the 13th C (part 2)

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Oh, look, it’s Thursday again! Time to write another medieval logic post. We’re still doing Aristotle in my intro class, so I haven’t any new interesting medieval tidbits from class prep to share. So I guess I’ll just return to … Continue reading →

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Ex impossibili sequitur quidlibet in the 13th C (part 1)

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Two weeks ago, I wrote about Ex impossibili sequitur quidlibet in the 12th C. Today, I come back to one of the promises there, namely, to look at part of Joke Spruyt’s “Thirteenth-Century Positions on the Rule ‘Ex Impossibili Sequitur … Continue reading →

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Ex impossibili sequitur quidlibet in the 12th C

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

At the AAL conference in Melbourne in July, one of the questions that I was asked was about medieval discussions of ex falso/impossibili/contradictione quidlibet sequiter (and its correlate, ad necessarium quodlibet sequiter). The legitimacy of these inferences was significantly discussed … Continue reading →

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