Mental Words and Mental Language In the Later Middle Ages

© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014. It is now a well known and increasingly well studied episode in medieval philosophy of mind that William of Ockham in the first quarter of the fourteenth century developed a genuine theory of mental language, in which the mind builds up mental propositions out of component concepts. Although one can find hints of the idea of mental speech, as distinct from spoken or written speech, already in Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics, nevertheless for the later scholastic discussion, it was Augustine’s treatment of the verbum cordis in especially book fifteen of his De trinitate that set the agenda.

ISBN:978-94-007-6967-0

Jaar van publicatie:2014