Tag Archives: supposition

Infinitary Logic in the Middle Ages?

Posted on July 18, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

Earlier this week I attended Computability in Europe, where I enjoyed catching up with many logic and computability friends, and answering random “did they do X in the Middle Ages?” questions. One in particular warranted a blog post; Benjamin Rin … Continue reading →

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On the selling of pepper: Sherwood, Auxerre, Bacon, and Spain

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

After our brief political digression last week, this week we’re back to the pepper puzzle. Since writing that post, I’ve been continuing to collect data on how medieval authors analysed these two sentences: (1) Pepper is sold here and in … Continue reading →

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A medieval puzzle of generic subjects and conjunctive predicates

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Sara L. Uckelman

Last weekend I had the pleasure of giving a keynote talk at the Twelfth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic. I was asked to give an overview/introduction to medieval logic (here are my slides), working … Continue reading →

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Medieval logicians on ‘and’, Part 1

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Sara L. Uckelman

Another item on my todo list reads “24. Med Log on &”. So much research time and effort is put into the conditional, or the consequence, and also into negation, while other propositional connectives are relatively little discussed, at least, … Continue reading →

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