Walter Burley: From the Beginning of His Treatise on the Kinds of Supposition (De suppositionibus)

Abstract

A translation from the beginning of Walter Burley's (or Burleigh's) De suppositionibus, as edited in Stephen F. Brown, "Walter Burleigh's Treatise De suppositionibus and Its Influence on William of Ockham," Franciscan Studies 32 (1972), pp. 15-64. The translation consists of everything up through the discussion of the supposition of "absolute" terms, but omits the discussion of the supposition of "relative" terms and everything after that. (This amounts to Brown, pp. 31-43, paragraphs (1.1)-(2.425).)