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Juan Luis Vives Against the Pseudodialecticians

A Humanist Attack on Medieval Logic

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  1. Rita Guerlac

    1. Ithaca, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Historical Library (SYHL, volume 18)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Rita Guerlac
    Pages 1-43

  3. Joannes Ludovicus Vives in Pseudo-dialecticos

    • Rita Guerlac
    Pages 45-109

  4. Joannis Ludivici Vivis de Causis Corruptarum Artium

    • Rita Guerlac
    Pages 110-153

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 155-246
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About this book

The humanist treatises presented here are only peripheral to the history of logic, but I think historians of logic may read them with interest, if perhaps with irritation. In the early sixteenth century the humanists set about to demolish medieval logic based on syllogistic and disputation, and to replace it in the university curriculum with a 'rhetorical' logic based on the use of topics and persuasion. To a very large extent they succeeded. Although Aris­ totelian logic retained a vigorous life in the schools, it never again attained to the overwhelming primacy it had so long enjoyed in the northern universities. It has been the custom to take the arguments of the humanists at face value, and the word 'scholastic' has continued to have pejorative overtones. This is easy to understand, because until recently our knowledge of the high period of medieval logic has been slight, and the humanists' testimony as to its decadent state in the sixteenth century has, for the most part, been accepted uncritically. Within the past two decades important work on medieval logic has recovered the brilliant achievement of thirteenth and fourteenth century logicians, philosophers, and natural scientists. New studies are constantly appearing, and the logico-semantic system of the terminists has become fruitful territory not only for historians of logic but also for students of modern linguistics and semiotics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ithaca, USA

    Rita Guerlac

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Juan Luis Vives Against the Pseudodialecticians

  • Book Subtitle: A Humanist Attack on Medieval Logic

  • Authors: Rita Guerlac

  • Series Title: Synthese Historical Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9373-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht, Holland 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0900-4Published: 31 May 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9375-4Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9373-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0082-111X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 248

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy, History, general

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