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Today's episode, No uncertain terms, 13th century logic.

Whatever you think of Bill Clinton's performance as U.S. President, you cannot deny that he would have made an excellent scholastic philosopher.

Admittedly, the monastic lifestyle might have presented him with some difficulties, but Clinton was able, in the midst of a cross-examination, to come up with the line, it depends upon what the meaning of the word is, is. Clearly this is a man who would have been right at home in a

medieval disputation. Clinton's ease with such fine distinctions was acquired

through his training in law. Another reason to think he would have found the medieval university a congenial

setting. But the medieval's who really got to the bottom of the meaning of the word is, and quite a few other words

and to the bargain, were those who taught and wrote about logic.

With today's look at this topic, I'm kicking off a mini-series devoted to developments

in several departments of philosophy during the 13th century.

Episodes on natural science, the soul, metaphysics, and ethics will set the table

for the feast of philosophy that comes in the works of major figures like Roger Paken, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Dunscotus, and Henry of Ghent.

Along the way, we'll wet our appetite by sampling the ideas of some lesser-known figures whose historical impact far exceeded their present day notoriety.

The 13th century was a time of great intellectual upheaval, as new ideas from Aristotle and the Islamic world

reshaped all philosophical disciplines. Nowhere was the impact of these sources more immediate or far-reaching than in logic.

The result was the greatest period of development in this discipline between the invention of logic by Aristotle and the work of Godlob Frege in the 19th century.

Of course, logic had been a standard part of the curriculum for centuries already in the guise

of Dialectic, one of the arts covered in the Trivium. And Aristotle was already

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