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Note 14: See for example the passage cited above from Peter Abelard's Rule. back

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Abelard's program thus became the standard operating procedure in medieval treatises on logic.

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In the first figure he gives these rules (I have included the terms A, B, C to clarify the rules, though they are not in Abelard's text):

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The basic notions of Abelard's modal theory are to be found in the introduction to Chapters XII and XIII of his longer commentary on Aristotle's De interpretatione (ed. Minio-Paluello 1958).

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Anything more systematic than this has to be drawn out from Abelard's definition of modal sentences and their semantic interpretation.

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In early commentaries on the Prior Analytics, there is usually no mention of Abelard's distinction between them.

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How much do you think Belicia knew about her father Abelard's story?

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There is no modal syllogistic explicitly outlined in any of Abelard's logical works, though in the Dialectica, he exemplifies some of the valid mixed moods: M-M in the first figure, MM - in the second, and M-M in the third (M represents a possibility sentence and ˜-™ an assertoric).

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What is new is Abelard's contention that modal discussions should proceed by distinguishing the different possible readings of modal sentences, moving on to consider their quantity, quality, and conversion as well as their equipollence and any other relations holding between them on these different readings.

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Abelard's hypothetical syllogistic does not repeat Boethius 'mistake of mixing a term logic like the theory of the syllogism with a sentential logic.

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