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Venice : Johannes Emericus, de Spira, 22 Feb. 1495/96, 1455. Signature of Thomas Stewart, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, dated Rome 1837 on title.bound in an incunable leaf over boards. Light dampstaining in lower margins throughout, title and last page soiled. Italy, the centre of humanism, produced the best logicians of the Renaissance. Paulus Pergulensis (d. 1451) was a pupil of Paul of Venice, author of the Logica magna and parva.. Introducing the theory of reference, sometimes called supposition, is an explanation of the ways in which words refer to objects in function of certain linguisitc signs. Paul of Venice maintains a threefold division: Material Reference, Simple Reference, and Personal Reference, all of which are identified The present is a more succinct and highly systematized logic, composed entirely in the form of theses. From 1420 to 1454 Pergulensis taught logic and natural philosophy, and then also mathematics, astronomy and theology, to the Venetian school of Rialto (founded in…
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