Roger Swyneshed's obligationes: A logical game of inference recognition?
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Roger Swyneshed's obligationes: A logical game of inference recognition?
zbMATH Open document ID: 1108.03004
author: Catarina Dutilh Novaes
published in: Synthese
publication date: 2006-12-20T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper compares the rules given by Roger Swyneshed for the logical game of \textit{obligationes} with those given some thirty years earlier by Walter Burley. It is argued that for Swyneshed, the Respondent's task is not consistency maintenance but rather the correct identification of propositions as (ir)relevant to the \textit{positum}; and that therefore his game serves an essentially different (and more limited) purpose than that of Burley. Swyneshed's game is determined and static; Burley's is neither. It is further argued that the relation between the two shows that \textit{P. V. Spade}'s theory [``Three theories of obligationes: Burley, Kilvington and Swyneshed on counterfactual reasoning'', Hist. Philos. Log. 3, 1--32 (1982)] that \textit{obligationes} should be regarded as a logic of counterfactuals is mistaken.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
zbMATH DE Number: 5080780
zbMATH Keywords: obligationes
zbMATH Keywords: dialogue games
zbMATH Keywords: medieval logic
zbMATH Keywords: counterfactuals
reviewed by: Jim Mackenzie
describes a project that uses: SPADE
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s11229-004-2248-z
OpenAlex ID: W2055055819
cites work: Medieval \textit{obligationes} as logical games of consistency maintenance
DOI: 10.1007/S11229-004-2248-Z
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5080780