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Copyright

Barbara Bartocci; Stephen Read;

Published On

2024-10-17

Page Range

pp. 20–29

Language

  • English
  • Latin

Print Length

10 pages

Capitulum Tertium

Solventes secundum peccatum in forma

  • Barbara Bartocci (translator)
  • Stephen Read (translator)
Chapter of: Insolubles: Critical Edition with English Translation(pp. 20–29)
In the third chapter, Segrave discusses two types of solution to the insolubles which identify the fallacy as one of form: that is, the paralogism has true premises, but the conclusion does not follow since the inference is invalid. The first type are various solutions which identify the inference as an example of Aristotle’s fallacy of secundum quid et simpliciter, in which the conclusion does follow partially or conditionally from the premises but not unconditionally. The second type covers Segrave’s own preferred solution, which claims that the insolubles exhibit a fallacy of accident, turning on a fallacious variation of supposition of one of the terms in the syllogism. He argues that the paralogisms solved by Aristotle by the fallacy of the conditional and the unconditional are not really insolubles, while those which Aristotle solves by the fallacy of accident are the real insolubles.

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.