Beyond Necessity

Wow, great page [Logic Museum]. I'm a philosophy student and have had a long and abiding interest in the medieval period and especially ...

There is a very fine argument in Ockham's Summa Logicae book II, chapter 4. He is objecting to the claim that the verb 'to be' ...

Another parallel translation in the Logic Museum: Cicero's commentary on Aristotle's Topics

Here are three quotations on the nature of philosophy (or 'metaphysics') that have something in common. They are all from the eighte...

My argument again. The following formally expressed statements are inconsistent. 1. (E x) number(x) 2. (x) number(x) implies not created(x) ...

Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism . Jody Azzouni, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 I haven't got hold of a...

Vlastimil Vohanka has drawn my attention to an article by the American theologian William Lane Craig, which deserves a separate post. Craig...

Questions 106-110 , Questions 111-114 , and Questions 115-119 of Part I of the Summa now available in the Logic Museum. This brings us to ...

I am translating Scotus' questions on Aristotle's On Interpretation (the Peryhermenias ) and have reached the part where he discuss...

Here is a case where the position I have argued for seems to be uncontroversially true. Consider (A) The earth was created around 6,000 year...

Tanas objects: “Not sure I understand what existential conservativism would amount to. Wouldn't you agree that there is a detective in A...

Following Brightly's point in the last post, here is a link to a translation of a work by William of Ockham (the other one) that I mad...

Brandon (who has an excellent and praiseworthy internet residence called Siris ) asks whether "Does writing [a fiction about a planet) ...

Questions 103-5 of the Summa in parallel Latin-English now available in the Logic Museum Annex .

Here is a blog that I don't follow enough. Cambridge logician Peter Smith reflects on some profound issues on the philosophy of logic a...

David Brightly writes : "'Hamlet kills Polonious' is analyzed into the conjunctive sentence 'Hamlet exists &Hamlet kill...

There is more stuff on existence going on at Bill Vallicella's place . This time, 'fictional objects', which I cannot bring myse...

Questions 94-103 now available . There are some interesting observations on sexual reproduction in question 98 . How would humans have rep...

So many blogs have started discussing Alan Rhoda’s ‘Theologian’s Fallacy’ that it’s time for me to get in on the act. In this case, merely a...

Bill Vallicella's otherwise excellent discussion of 'thin' theories of existence in a series of posts at the Maverick Philosoph...