One of the manuscripts of BuridanÕs Summulae contains three figures, each in the form of an octagon. At each node of each octagon there are nine propositions. Buridan uses the figures to illustrate his doctrine of the syllogism, revising Aristotle's theory of the modal syllogism and adding theories of syllogisms with propositions containing oblique terms (such as ÔmanÕs donkeyÕ) and with Ôpropositions of non-normal constructionÕ (where the predicate precedes the copula). O-propositions of non-n
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Foundations of Logical Consequence
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Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition (2012)
ISBN: 9783034803786