An Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise on "Insolubles": Text and Study

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1969

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A thesis submitted for the degree of Licentiate of Medieval Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, 1969. The thesis consists of a Latin edition and a philosophical and historical study of a single anonymous treatise on semantic paradoxes like the "Liar Paradox" ("This very sentence is false"). The author has subsequently been identified as a certain Richard Brinkley, a Franciscan Friar at Oxford. The treatise was written sometime probably before 1373. The treatise is edited from: British Library, MS Harley 3243, fols. 47ra1-56rb5. Two other manuscripts have subsequently been found to contain this treatise as Part 6 of Brinkley's "Summa logicae": Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, MS 1360, and Prague, Státní Knihovna, ČSR, MS 396.

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Insolubles, Insolubilia, Richard Brinkley, Brinkley, Thomas Bradwardine, Bradwardine, William of Ockham, Ockham, John Dumbleton, Dumbleton, Robert Fland, Fland, Paradox, Semantic Paradox, Liar Paradox, Liar, Antinomy, Antinomies, Harley 3243, Manuscript, Medieval, Mediaeval, Middle Ages, Logic, Licentiate

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"An Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise on 'Insolubles': Text and Study," by Paul Vincent Spade, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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