
HoP 239 - Catarina Dutilh Novaes on Medieval Logic
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Transform of Syllogisms
In the 12th century and early 13th century, some authors said that the form of a syllogism cannot be understood in two ways. When you get to the 14th century, the sense of form as pertaining to the figure of syllogisms is not is nowhere to be seen anymore. And then we really moved to what we what I call the schematic notion of the formal. Right. Listener can check the validity of that at home. Yes. So anyway, so it's the only 12th century commentary on the prior analytics that we know of. The oldest.
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