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Richard Billingham has become famous for his handbook Speculum puerorum terminus est in quem resolvitur propositio (Mirror of Youngsters or a Term in Which a Proposition is Analyzed). The book gained wide popularity in Europe, especially in eastern Europe and Italy, as can be gathered from the great number of manuscripts and commentaries handed down to us. The tract is on the analysis of a proposition with the help of an analysis of an analyzable term used in it. Once such an analysis has been completed, it is easier to assign the reference (suppositio) or another property of a term and to establish the truth of the proposition. The probatio-theory was especially used in natural science, for example, by William of Heytesbury (before 1313–1372/3).
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Bos, E. (2011). Richard Billingham. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_435
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