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Copyright

Barbara Bartocci; Stephen Read;

Published On

2024-10-17

Page Range

pp. 56–99

Language

  • English
  • Latin

Print Length

44 pages

Capitulum Sextum

Solutio insolubilium cathegoricorum et ypotheticorum

  • Barbara Bartocci (translator)
  • Stephen Read (translator)
Chapter of: Insolubles: Critical Edition with English Translation(pp. 56–99)
In the sixth chapter, Segrave applies his solution to a long series of insolubles, many of which are familiar from the works of his contemporaries. In the process he observes that insolubles only occur in the context of the terms ‘true’ or ‘false’, or terms equivalent to or containing them such as ‘known’, ‘known to be false’, ‘uncertain’ (dubium) and ‘deceived’. These insolubles include exceptives such as ‘No man besides Socrates says a falsehood’, and conjunctive and disjunctive examples such as ‘A man is an ass or a disjunction proposed to you is false’. The most extensive discussion concerns an example apparently introduced by Richard Kilvington as the 48th and last of his ‘Sophismata’, written in the mid-1320s.

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.