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The Logic of Where and While in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Uckelman, Sara L.

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Lev Beklemishev
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Stéphane Demri
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András Máté
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Abstract

Medieval analyses of molecular propositions include many non-truthfunctional connectives in addition to the standard modern binary connectives (conjunction, disjunction, and conditional). Two types of non-truthfunctional molecular propositions considered by a number of 13th- and 14th-century authors are temporal and local propositions, which combine atomic propositions with ‘while’ and ‘where’. Despite modern interest in the historical roots of temporal and tense logic, medieval analyses of ‘while’ propositions are rarely discussed in modern literature, and analyses of ‘where’ propositions are almost completely overlooked. In this paper we introduce 13th- and 14th-century views on temporal and local propositions, and connect the medieval theories with modern temporal and spatial counterparts.

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Uckelman, S. L. (2016). The Logic of Where and While in the 13th and 14th Centuries. In L. Beklemishev, S. Demri, & A. Máté (Eds.), Advances in modal logic (535-550)

Conference Name Advances in Modal Logic 2016.
Conference Location Budapest, Hungary
Start Date Aug 29, 2023
End Date Sep 2, 2016
Acceptance Date Jun 3, 2016
Online Publication Date Jun 30, 2016
Publication Date Jun 30, 2016
Deposit Date Jun 3, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Pages 535-550
Series Title Advances in modal logic
Series Number 11
Book Title Advances in modal logic.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1150318
Publisher URL http://www.collegepublications.co.uk/aiml/?00008
Additional Information Conference date: 29 August-2 September 2016

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