St. Anselm of Canterbury’s place in both the history of philosophy and the history of theology is firmly recognized, but his place in the history of logic is often overlooked. We argue that this is primarily the result of four factors: (1) the primary propagator of Anselm’s logical works in the 20th century, D.P. Henry, used a system of logic unfamiliar and objectionable to most mainstream logi...

Arthur N. Prior, in the Preface of Past, Present and Future, made clear his indebtedness to “the very lively tense-logicians of California for many discussions”. Strangely, with a notable exception of Copeland (1996), there is no extensive discussion of these scholars (as a group, if not a school) in the literature on the history of tense logic. In this paper, I propose to study how Nino B. Coc...

Many have contended that non-classical logicians failed at providing evidence of paraconsistent logics being applicable in cases inconsistency toleration the sciences. With this mind, my main concern here is methodological. I aim addressing question how should we study and explain inconsistent science, using tools, without ruining into most common methodological mistakes. My response divided tw...

N.B.: For the references, please see Selected Bibliography on Aristotle's Theory of Categorical Syllogism "When modem logicians in the 1920s and 1930s first turned their attention to the problem of understanding Aristotle’s contribution to logic in modern terms, they were guided both by the Frege-Russell conception of logic as formal ontology and at the same time by a desire to protect Aristotl...

I examine the treatment of metaphor by medieval logicians and how it stemmed from their reception of classical texts in logic, grammar, and rhetoric. I consider the relation of the word ‘metaphor’ to the notions of translatio and transumptio, and show that it is not always synonymous with these. I also show that in the context of commentaries on the Sophistical Refutations metaphor was subsumed...

The discussion of supervenience is replete with the use of infinitary logical operations. For instance, one may often find a supervenient property that corresponds to an infinite collection of supervenience-base properties, and then ask about the infinite disjunction of all those base properties. This is crucial to a well-known argument of Kim (1984) that supervenience comes nearer to reduction...

Thesis: Indexicals are not essential in the sense of being semantically irreducible; the arguments for the semantic irreducibility of indexicals only apply to referentially-opaque readings of indexicals in the scope of attitude verbs. Suppose, Sally, Peter and Max spend a nice evening in a pub, and Max suddenly utters: (1) Max: I’ve lost my wallet. That’s an unpleasant situation. Not only will ...