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John Buridan on Self-Refe. has been added to your Cart. John Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. The final chapter of Buridan's Sophismata deals with problems about self-reference, and in particular with the semantic paradoxes. George Hughes was a philosophy professor (the highest academic rank in British Commonwealth countries) at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and a world-class logician.

John Buridan was a fourteenth-century philosopher who enjoyed an enormous reputation for about two hundred years, was then totally neglected, and is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic. He offers his own distinctive solution to the well-known 'Liar Paradox' and introduces a number of other paradoxes that will be unfamiliar to most logicians.

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Request PDF Hughes G. .John Buridan on self-reference January 2011 · Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland.John Buridan on self-reference. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge etc. 1982, xi + 233 pp. HughesG. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

John Buridan on the liar: a study and reconstruction

John Buridan on the liar: a study and reconstruction. Spade, Paul Vincent, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1978. John Buridan on the liar: a study and reconstruction.

A Companion to Modal Logic, by G. E. Hughes and M. J. Cresswell, Methuen 1984. The British Academy Classical and Medieval Logic Texts, VI. Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.

An alternative translation of Buridan's Chapter VIII, including Sophism 17, is found in Hughes, G. John Buridan on Self-Reference: Chapter Eight of Buridan's ‘Sophismata’, Translated with an Introduction, and .

2 I have been unable to locate any prior published source for this sophism; nor does Buridan, as he sometimes does in other cases, attribute to it any earlier origin

Hughes GE (1982) John Buridan on self-reference. Chapter eight of Buridan’s ‘Sophismata’.

Hughes GE (1982) John Buridan on self-reference. Kretzmann N, Kretzmann BE (1990a) The ‘Sophismata’ of Richard Kilvington, critical edn. Oxford University Press for the British Academy, OxfordGoogle Scholar. Kretzmann N, Kretzmann BE (1990b) The ‘Sophismata’ of Richard Kilvington.

John Buridan is now being 'rediscovered' through his relevance to contemporary work in philosophical logic.

Hughes and Jean Buridan. Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13:9780521240864. Release Date:September 1982.