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Starting with the initial thesis of De signis that the sign belongs to the category of relation, this contribution will address the following three questions: i) how is this thesis - let's call it T - to be understood in the light of Bacon's theory of …

Like many other 13th-century philosophers, the Modistae placed meaning in the category of relationship. They take the distinction between natural and conventional/arbitrary meaning as a given, and focus on the conventional aspect in developing their …

Roger Bacon's definition and description of the sign in De Signis can only be understood in relation to its theological background, and more specifically that of sacramental theology. Starting with the Augustinian definition in De doctrina christiana , …

Although he always expressed the strongest reservations about logic, Locke very early on attracted the attention of logicians of his time and was even at the starting point of a tradition of English logicians who, in the 18th century, explicitly used the …

Roger Bacon's De signis opens with the assertion that the sign belongs to the category of relation: " signum est in praedicamento relationis " (§1). The sign is in a double relation, to the interpreter (R1) , and to the thing it signifies (R2) . The full …

The aim of this paper is to examine the role played by the problem of the excuse of ignorance in medieval reflections on the status of faith and unbelief. By means of an archaeological investigation, the aim is to identify when and how the phrase fides …

The object of the intervention is the instantaneous advent of human thought. I study this in Averroes, who derives from Aristotle's Physics VII, 3 the idea that thought arises in the intellect as a relation as soon as something else - images, in …