Copyright

Barbara Bartocci; Stephen Read;

Published On

2024-10-17

Page Range

pp. 4–20

Language

  • English
  • Latin

Print Length

17 pages

Capitulum Secundum

Solventes secundum peccatum in materia

  • Barbara Bartocci (translator)
  • Stephen Read (translator)
In the second chapter, Segrave criticizes two solutions to insolubles proposed by his contemporaries which identify the fallacy as one of matter: that is, the paralogism is valid but the premises are false. The first such theory discussed is cassationism, which claims that insolubles fail to constitute meaningful propositions at all. The second is the solution presented by Thomas Bradwardine only a few years earlier, which claims that insolubles not only signify their own falsehood, but also implicitly signify their own truth, and so are self-contradictory.

Contributors

Barbara Bartocci

(translator)

Formerly Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and before that, Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews (Scotland) on the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts’. Her research focusses on medieval logic; she has published journal articles and book chapters on medieval dialectic and on solutions to paradoxes, like the Liar paradox, developed in the Late Middle Ages. She also specialises in editing medieval logical texts transmitted in manuscripts. She co-edited, together with Stephen Read, the first critical edition and English translation of Paul of Venice’s Logica Magna: The Treatise on Insolubles (Peeters, 2022).

Stephen Read

(translator)
Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Logic at University of St Andrews

Professor Emeritus of the History and Philosophy of Logic at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). He is the author of Relevant Logic (Blackwell 1988) and Thinking about Logic (Oxford UP 1995), editor of Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar (Springer 1993), editor and translator of Thomas Bradwardine: Insolubilia (Peeters 2010), translator of John Buridan: Treatise on Consequences (Fordham UP 2015), co-editor with Catarina Dutilh Novaes of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic (Cambridge UP 2016), editor and translator, with Barbara Bartocci, of Paul of Venice, Logica Magna: the Treatise on Insolubles (Peeters 2022), and co-editor of Theories of Paradox in the Middle Ages (College Publications 2023); and is author of many articles on contemporary and medieval philosophy of logic and language. He was leader of the project ‘Theories of Paradox in Fourteenth-Century Logic: Edition and Translation of Key Texts’ (2017-21) funded by a Research Project Grant from the Leverhulme Trust.