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Universals in ontological investigations
Get PDFUniversals appear to be as central in today's computational-based ontology as they were in medieval ontological investigations. As the author of a recent work on the history of universals (Pinzani, 2018), I was asked for a commentary on Augusto’s article “Bridging Mainstream and Formal Ontology” (Augusto, 2021), which aims at showing that medieval ontological investigations can be relevant for contemporary ontology engineering. In this commentary, I begin by saying something about my way of reading 12th-century logical literature and then offer some modest considerations on the general theme addressed in Augusto's article
Il De Generibus et Speciebus e la teoria della collectio
No full textThe De Generibus (attributed to Gauslenus ) can be divided into three
parts: the first is about the notion of whole, the second deals with
contemporary theories on universals, the third contains the presentation
of the collectio theory and the solution of the problem of universals. The
author considers universals like ‘humanity’ as collections composed of
single essences built from particular generic essences and particular
differential properties (rationality, mortality, being two-footed). One can
say that Gauslenus is a philosopher who does not believe in abstract and
universal entities, and imagines that these entities be multiplicities of
individual essences
Il problema degli universali da Boezio al XII secolo. Draft in preparazione volume per Brill
No full textHomerus est poeta... an non? Questioni di presupposizione esistenziale nella logica di Abelardo
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