Wilhelm of Osma
Wilhelm von Osma , Guilelmus de Osma (around 1350), was a medieval philosopher and logician , from whom the work De Consequentiis comes.
According to Franz Schupp (1991), nothing is known about him. Since there is a diocese Osma-Soria ( Suffragandiocese of Toledo) with seat in El Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma , Spain , he was possibly a cleric. It is fitting that he is referred to as Reverendus in the handwriting (in the colophon ) of his De Consequentiis . In the middle of the 14th century Alonso de Toledo y Vargas was Bishop of Osma, who was previously lecturer of the Sentences in Paris and commentator (Sentences, Quaestiones) of Aristotle on the soul . His work is an early example of the logical formulas of the Middle Ages, mostly anonymously handed down in the manuscripts, especially in the group of English logicians around Walter Burley and Wilhelm von Ockham . According to Schupp, the work within the Burley-Ockham group is related to an anonymous treatise on the conclusions from a collective manuscript from Padua from the last quarter of the 14th century. It has only the introductory description of the conclusions in common with Richard Billingham's treatise and, according to Schupp, can also have arisen independently.
The manuscript is in the Gdansk City Library (cod. 2181) and was bought from private ownership in 1866. In the catalog, after analyzing the script, the 15th century is given.
literature
- Franz Schupp (Ed.): Wilhelm von Osma. De Consequentiis / On the Consequences, Felix Meiner 1991
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Schupp, Wilhelm von Osma. De Consequentiis / On the Consequences, Felix Meiner 1991, Introduction, p. IX
- ^ A. Günther, Catalog of the manuscripts of the Danzig City Library 1909
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilhelm of Osma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guilelmus de Osma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Philosopher and logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th century or 14th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 14th century or 15th century |