This article deals with a brief difficultas in the Tractatus de compositione propositionis mentalis by Fernando de Enzinas: qualiter copule significent tempus et an copule de presenti et preterito sint synonime. A progressive determination of the signification of the copula is analysed: first, Enzinas defines his position about the principal syncategorematic signification of the copula; then, he analyses the sense of the consignification of time traditionally attributed to the copula. The originality of Enzinas’ position is highlighted, given the fact that he gives preference to the question as to how the copulae signify time rather than the question as to which time the copulae signify.
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Aurélien Robert, ‘Les Deux Langages de la Pensée: A Propos de Quelques Réflexions Médiévales’, in Le Langage mental du Moyen Âge à l’Âge classique, ed. J. Biard (Louvain-Paris, 2009), 145-68: 157-61; Gino Roncaglia, ‘Mesino de Codronchi’s Discussion on Syncategoremata and Mental Language in his Quaestiones on De interpretatione’, in Aristotle’s Peri hermeneias in the Latin Middle Ages. Essays on the Commentary Tradition, ed. H.A.G. Braakhuis and C.H. Kneepkens (Groningen-Haren, 2003), 149-63.
See Nuchelmans, Late-Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition, 28-31; E.J. Ashworth, ‘The Structure of Mental Language: Some Problems Discussed by Early Sixteenth Century Logicians’, Vivarium 20 (1982), 59-83. For an overview of the distinction categorema/syncategorema and the semantics of syncategorems, see the entry ‘Syncategoremata’ by Gyula Klima in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, ed. K. Brown (Oxford, 2006) 12: 353-6. For in-depth studies, issue 25/2 (2003) of Histoire Épistémologie Langage, edited by Irène Rosier-Catach, is entirely devoted to syncategorems.
See E.J. Ashworth, ‘Jacobus Naveros (fl. ca. 1533) on the Question: Do Spoken Words Signifiy Concepts or Things?’, in Logos and Pragma, ed. L.M. de Rijk and C.A.G. Braakhuis (Nijmegen, 1987), 189-214; Paul J.J.M. Bakker, ‘Syncatégorèmes, concepts, équivocité. Deux questions anonymes, conservées dans le ms. Paris, B.N., lat. 16.401, liées à la sémantique de Pierre d’Ailly (c. 1350-1420)’, Vivarium 34 (1996), 76-131; Joël Biard, ‘Pierre d’Ailly: Langage, Concept, Représentation’, in Le Langage mental du Moyen Âge à l’Âge classique, ed. Biard, 169-83; Stephan Meier-Oeser, ‘Medieval Semiotics’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2011 Edition), E.N. Zalta (ed.), url = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2011/entries/semiotics-medieval/>.
Nuchelmans, Late-Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition, 36-7. On the 14th-century discussion whether mental syncategorems are ‘concepts’ or ‘acts’, see, for example, Roncaglia, ‘Mesino de Codronchi’s Discussion on Syncategoremata and Mental Language’; Bakker, ‘Syncatégorèmes, concepts, équivocité’.
See Nuchelmans, Late-Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition, 131.
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This article deals with a brief difficultas in the Tractatus de compositione propositionis mentalis by Fernando de Enzinas: qualiter copule significent tempus et an copule de presenti et preterito sint synonime. A progressive determination of the signification of the copula is analysed: first, Enzinas defines his position about the principal syncategorematic signification of the copula; then, he analyses the sense of the consignification of time traditionally attributed to the copula. The originality of Enzinas’ position is highlighted, given the fact that he gives preference to the question as to how the copulae signify time rather than the question as to which time the copulae signify.
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