Syncategoremata

The Stadsbibliotheek of Brugge houses a manuscript (ms. 510, f. 227ra-237vb) that holds a short logical text on the Syncategoremata, e.g. words that are not subjects or predicates in proposition. In this manuscript the text is ascribed to Henry of Ghent, who was a leading thinker of the second half of the thirteenth century. The highly interesting text contains some typical themes of Henry of Ghent, e.g. the distinction between esse essentiae and esse existentiae, which further supports the attribution to Henry. If it is the case that the text is by Henry, it shows that Henry had much more technical knowledge of logic and semantics than is often imagined. In the critical study which precedes the critical edition it is shown that the text was influenced by the logical works of Peter of Spain.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
― Bibliography to the Introduction
EDITION
― Argumentum
― Symbols:
1. In the Text Itself
2. In the Critical Apparatus
― Abbreviations:
1. In the Critical Apparatus
2. In the Apparatus of Citations
— Symbol of the Manuscript
— Photograph
SYNCATEGOREMATA
TABLES
— Works Cited by Henry(?)
— List of Sophismata
— Onomastic Table
— Table of Photographs
— Table of Contents

Format: Text edition - ebook

160 pages

ISBN: 9789461660909

Publication: January 07, 2011

Series: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 2: Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia 37

Languages: English

Stock item number: 65560

Girard J. Etzkorn is a former professor emeritus at St. Bonaventure University. He died in 2023.
Gordon A. Wilson is professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina. He is the general coordinator of the Leuven edition of the 'Opera omnia' of Henry of Ghent.

Henk Braakhuis is Professor Emeritus at University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.