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In his monumental A History of Formal Logic,1 in the section on Scholastic Logic (Part III), Father Bocheński comments (p. 173) that
if we ask how the expression Supposition’ is to be rendered in modern terms, we have to admit that it cannot be. ‘Supposition’ covers numerous semiotic functions for which we now have no common name. Some kinds of supposition quite clearly belong to semantics, as in the case of both material suppositions, and personal; others again, such as simple supposition and those into which personal supposition is subdivided, are. . . . not semantical but purely syntactical functions.
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I.M. Bocheński, A History of Formal Logic, pp. 162 ff.
As in Truth and Denotation, Chapters IV and V.
N. Kretzmann’s translation is used here in part. See his edition of William of Sherwood, Introduction to Logic (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis: 1966), p. 107.
See Truth and Denotation, Chapters XI and XII.
Cf. H. Reichenbach, Elements of Symbolic Logic.
Cf. R. Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language.
Cf. H. Hiż, ‘The Role of Paraphrase in Grammar,’ in Monograph Series on Language and Linguistics (April, 1964) and Belief, Existence, and Meaning, pp. 163 f., pp. 213 f.
Cf. the definition of ‘Ext’ in Truth and Denotation, p. 106.
See Chapters VII and VIII below. An interesting alternative systematic treatment of process is that of Laurent larouche, ‘Examination of the Axiomatic Foundations of a Theory of Change,’ Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 9 (1968): 371–384 and 10 (1969): 277–284 and 385–409.
William Kneale and Martha Kneale, The Development of Logic (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1962), pp. 253 ff.
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Martin, R.M. (1979). On Suppositio and Denotation. In: Pragmatics, Truth, and Language. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9457-7_6
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