文档介绍:REFERENCE and
GENERALITY
An Examination of
Some Medieval and Modern Theories
BY PETER THOMAS GEACH
Professor of logic, University of Leeds
Third Edition
Buridan lecturing on logic. From the copy of Buridan's Sophismata Cornell University Press
(Paris: Denys Roce) in the Bodleian Library.
ITHACA AND LONDON
CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
General Editor
Max Black, Cornell University
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