Did the medieval philosophers admit the identity principle as prior to the principle of non-contradiction?

Autores/as

  • Ana Rieger Schmidt Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2018.3.28846

Palabras clave:

principle of non-contradiction, identity, logic, Geraldus Odonis, Antoine Andre, John of Buridan, John of Baconthorpe, Nicolas of Autrecourt.

Resumen

The present article deals with the not very common opinion among medieval philosophers according to which the identity principle (ens est ens) is the true first principle, undermining the primacy of the principle of non-contradiction. Following a refutation of this position in the logical work of the Franciscan Geraldus Odonis, we intend to investigate its target as well as other cases of the same dispute in 14th century authors: Antoine Andre, John of Buridan, John of Baconthorpe and Nicolas of Autrecourt. We defend that Odonis presents a successful response to this position.

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Biografía del autor/a

Ana Rieger Schmidt, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Departamento de Filosofia, História de Filosofia Medeival

Citas

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ANTOINE ANDRE, Questiones Super Duodecim Libros Methaphysice. Venetiis: M. Boneti Locatelli, 1491.

ARISTOTLE, Metaphysics. edited by W. D. Ross. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958.

JOHN OF BACONTHORPE. Quaestiones in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum, Et Quodlibetales. Ed. Cremonae, S.L: s.n, 1618.

JOHN OF BURIDAN. Lectura Erfordiensis in 1.-6. Metaphysicam Together with the 15th-Century Abbreviatio Caminensis. edited by L. M. Rijk, Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.106213

GIREALDUS ODONIS O.f.m. Opera Philosophica: vol. 1. edited by L. M. de Rijk. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

FRANCISCO SUARES, Disputationes Metaphysicae, t. XXV of Opera Omnia, edited by Charles Berton. Paris: Vives, 1856-61. Reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 2009.

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2018-12-31

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Schmidt, A. R. (2018). Did the medieval philosophers admit the identity principle as prior to the principle of non-contradiction?. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 63(3), 976–997. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2018.3.28846