NDLI: When the World is Not Enough: Medieval Ways to Deal with the Lack of Referents

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Goubier, Frédéric Perini Santos, Ernesto
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	According to several late medieval logicians, the use the universal quantifier ‘omnis’ creates the requirement that the sentence refers to at least three items—the principle of sufficientia appellatorum. The commitment is such that, when the quota is not fulfilled, one has to import the missing items from the realm of the nonexistent. While the central argument for this principle, whose origin is Aristotle’s De Caelo, stems from the contrast between unrestricted universal quantifiers and binary quantifiers, the discussion is often mixed with another issue, concerning the requirement of a plurality of referents for universals. In this paper, we try to distinguish those different issues and map the reactions of xiii $^{th}$ authors to the principle of sufficientia appellatorum.
Starting Page	213
Ending Page	235
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16618297
Journal	Logica Universalis
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	16618300
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Basel
Publisher Date	2015-01-09
Publisher Place	Basel
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Supposition theory quantifiers thirteenth century Medieval Philosophical and critical Mathematics Computer Science Logic
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Logic

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When the World is Not Enough: Medieval Ways to Deal with the Lack of Referents