sophismata

Socrates (Debra Nails) sophismata [= sophisms] (Fabienne Pironet and Joke Spruyt)

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The discussion of sophisms occurs in three different settings in the medieval literature: first, sophisms which are discussed in works on different topics where the sophism raises certain questions germaine to that topic; second, works by a single author which examine a series of sophisms (e.g. the sophismata of Albert of Saxony or John Buridan), and third, collections of sophisms discussed by diverse authors (Read, 1993).

Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy

Although it has usually been supposed that medieval interest in sophismata and insolubilia came from medieval scholars 'exposure to ancient sources, like Arisotle's

Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy

The influential view of William Heytesbury was that insolubles should be resolved in the context of an obligatio, a specialized form of disputation, and Heytesbury proposes rules for solving insolubilia as well as sophismata in this way (Spade, 1982, 252).

Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy

Distinctiones et sophismata parisiens du XIIIe siècle.

Sophismata

Sigerus de Cortraco, ˜Summa modorum significandi sophismata™; New Edition, on the Basis of G. Wallerand's editio prima, with Additions, Critical Notes, an Index of Terms and an Introduction.

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The first and most evident role of sophismata is pedagogical.

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(Note also that Pinborg here uses the word ˜sophismata™ to signify not only sophisma-sentences but the whole literature that discussed them as well.)

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Most of the logical and grammatical texts on sophismata have been edited by S. Ebbesen and his collaborators in the review

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Similarly, in solving sophismata, sometimes Latin word-order is used as an arbitrary code for interpreting the sentence.

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