[lit-ideas] Buridan, Sophisma XIII -- Summa Logicae (Latin)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:16:27 EST
Yost:
>It's my misconstrual of Buridan's thirteenth
>sophism.
>"I know this: 'p & ~p' is false."
>"Ergo, "I know this: 'p & ~p' is false" cannot be true or false. For
>If "I know this: 'p & ~p' is false" is true, a sentence conatining the
predicate 'false' would
be known.
>If "I know this: 'p & ~p is false' " is false, it is not the case that I
know this: 'p & ~p' is false"
>And Ergo, "It is the case that I know this: 'p & ~p' is false" and "It is
not the case that I know this: 'p & ~p' is false" would be equivalent.
>Ergo, "I know this: 'p & ~p' is false" is not a proposition.
Perhaps Yost may be able to find the original Latin sophisma. There is a pdf
document that mentions TWO sections of sophisma, and I counted two different
series of first, second, third. I understand the critical edition is by
Scott, but not online apparently.
Cheers,
J. L.
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