A Logical Reconstruction of Medieval Terminist Logic in Conceptual Realism

Abstract

The framework of conceptual realism provides a logically ideal lan����guage within which to reconstruct the medieval terminist logic of the ��������14th century���� The terminist notion of a concept���� which shifted from Ockham����s early view of a concept as an intentional object ����the ����fictum theory���� to his later view of a concept as a mental act ����the intellectio theory�������� is reconstructed in this framework in terms of the idea of con����cepts as unsaturated cognitive structures.