No Mode of Being, No Mode of Signifying: The Anti-Modist Emptiness Argument in the Destructions of the Modes of Signifying

The Destructions of the Modes of Signifying (henceforth: dms) is an anonymous fourteenth-century polemic against modist speculative grammar (grammatica speculativa). Wielding Ockhamist logic and metaphysics, the dms repeatedly attacks the very root of modism: the claim that the grammatical features...

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Main Author: Crimi, Milo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Vivarium
Year: 2024, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-36
Further subjects:B empty terms
B Thomas of Erfurt
B Speculative grammar
B modism
B Nominalism
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