Future Contingents was written before 1324, about the same time as the Summa Logicae (and. This type of analysis plays an essential role in his substantive philosophical and theological works, and in many cases then can hardly be understood without a prior acquaintance with this section of the Summa.Īn introduction by Alfred J. Ockhams Treatise on Predestination, Gods Foreknowledge, and.
Early on in his Summa Logicae, Ockham distinguishes two broad groups of. He also illustrates the use of exponential analysis to deal with propositions that prove troublesome in both semantic theory and other disciplines, such as metaphysics, physics, and theology. It is a characteristic of William Ockhams philosophy, deriving from his. His discussion includes what he takes to be the correct semantic treatment of quantified propositions, past tense and future tense propositions, and modal propositions, all of which are receiving much attention from contemporary philosophers. William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism. In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae William of Ockham
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