Prior on an insolubilium of Jean Buridan

Sara L. Uckelman

pp. 487-498

in: Peter Øhrstrøm, Per V. Hasle, Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (eds), From a logical angle, Synthese 188 (3), 2012.

Abstract

We present Prior’s discussion of a puzzle about valditity found in the writings of the fourteenth-century French logician Jean Buridan and show how Prior’s study of this puzzle may have provided the conceptual inspiration for his development of hybrid logic.

Cited authors

Buridan Jean