John le Page
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Life
Work
Le Page is one of several semanticists at the University of Paris in the second quarter of the 13th century (others include Nicholas of Paris and , to a lesser extent, Peter of Spain), who tried to explain how a syncategorematic term has meaning in one sense and in another sense not, by appealing to a distinction between significatio generalis or signification in general, and signification specialis, or specific signification. A syncategorematic term has only a general signification, which is indefinite until it is determined by the words to which it is attached to. [1]
Influence
Primary sources
- Rationes super Praedicamenta Aristotelis (1934) excerpted in E. Francheschini, 'Giovanni Pago: Le sua 'Rationes Super Praedicamenta Aristotelis' e la loto posizione nel movimento aristotelico del seculo XIII', Sophia 2:172; 329-50; 476-86.
- Commentary on the Perihermenias, MS Padova, Biblioteca Universitaria, 1589 (69ra-93v) - Lohr 1972, p 124, Braakhuis 1979, I p169 n14
Secondary sources
- Grundel, J. (1958). Die Sentenzenglosse des Johannes Pagus (ca. 1243-45) in Padua Bibl. Ant. 139', Munchener theologische Zeitschrift 9:171-85; Pelster, F. (1930). 'Literaturgeschichtliches sur Pariser theologischen Schule aus den Jahren 1230 bis 1256', Scholastik 5:46-78; Braakhuis, H.A.G. (1979) De 13de eeuwse tractaten over syncategorematische tennen (Deel I), Krips Repro Meppel.
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Notes
- ↑ See Le Page, Syncategoremata, (Braakhuius 1979 I, pp 189-90), Nicholas of Paris (Syncategoremata, pp 4, 10, 16, 66-67, 132, 219, 246 and 281), Peter of Spain, Syncategoremata Braakhuis pp 264, 268.
