
HoP 239 - Catarina Dutilh Novaes on Medieval Logic
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Syllogisms - What Is It?
At first people like Alexander and other ancient commentators, they usually describe they usually reserve the term form to talk about the figure of a syllogism. So there's first figure, second figure, third figure. And so this does not have to do with the so called logical terms such as all or no. This the logical terms so to say they define the mood of an argument. The mood is really, you know, with the logical terminology in it. But for example, Barbara and Celeran are both first figure syllogisms.
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