HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ramon Llull, Jean Buridan, Sum Of Logic
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Published on 15 Jun 2020
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Hum 1
Introduction to Humanities
Humanities notes 3/4~
● Rhetoric (pp. 130-131)
● Poetics (pp. 131-132)
● Mediaeval European Logic
○ Old Logic (500-1200 CE)
○ New Logic (1200-1500/1600 CE)
■ Renaissance
○ Aristotle- Difference between two periods
● Boethius (480-525 CE)
○ Translations of (Aristotle’s) Organon and Intro to (aristotle) Isagoge
● Peter abelard
○ Dialectica
○ Consequentiae
● The New Logic
○ Many translations of Aristotle’s works
■ Arabic
○ Spain
■ Linguistic, religious and cultural dialogue
● Ramon Llull
○ Missionary work in North Africa
■ Converted Muslims to Christianity
● Applied logic and order to make Christian doctrine more
appealing
○ Tree of knowledge
● Reconciliation of rational thinking and religious devotion, philosophy
and religion/theology
● Highest achievements in European Logic
○ William of Ockham (1287-1347)
■ Terministic Logic
■ Discovery of two laws of propositional logic
■ Summa Logicae
○ Jean Buridan (1295-1358)
■ Treatise of Inferences
■ Paradoxes
● The definition of paradox, is it the same as we think of it today?
(A statement that is contradictory to itself)
■ Paradox in rationality
● Pg 127
● Islam and the deevlopment of logic