John Pagus

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John Pagus[1] (active first half of the thirteenth century) was a scholastic philosopher at the University of Paris, generally considered the first logician among the recorded scholastics[2][3].

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[edit] Life

He is thought to have been a Master of Arts in the 1220s, and to have taught Peter of Spain[4]. At that time he was writing on syncategorematic terms[5][6].

[edit] Works

  • Appellationes
  • Commentary on the Sentences
  • Rationes super predicamenta Aristotelis
  • Syncategoremata

[edit] Reference

  • Alain De Libera, Les Appellationes de Jean le Page, in Arch. Hist, doctr. litt. MA 51 [59] (1984) 193-255

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ John Le Page, Johannes Pagus, Jean Le Page, Jean Lepage.
  2. ^ John Pagus
  3. ^ Bertil Malmberg, Histoire de la Linguistique (1991), p. 127.
  4. ^ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Peter of Spain
  5. ^ Sten Ebbesen, Russell L. Friedman (editors), Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition (1999), p. 36.
  6. ^ Parts published in H. A. G. Braakhuis, De 13de Eeuwse Tractaten over Syncategorematische Termen. Vol. I: Inleidende Studie (1979).

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