Contexts of Utterance and Evaluation in Peter of Mantua's Obligationes
Vivarium 49 (1-3):275-299 (2011)
| Abstract | In this paper I will examine the relation between the theory of obligations and its use in sophismatic contexts through the lens of certain pragmatic concerns. In order to do this, I will take a sophism discussed by Peter of Mantua in his treatise on obligations as a case-study. I will first provide a brief outline of the structure of the treatise and then examine a concrete case that shows how the relationship between background assumptions (casus and context of utterance) and criteria of response seems to suggest a way to qualify the application of general rules (especially for irrelevant sentences) in certain limit-cases. By discussing Peter's presentation of the sophism, I will also argue for a connection between Peter of Mantua's text and Mesino de Codronchi's Questiones on the De Interpretatione | |||||||||
| Keywords | Obligationes Context of utterance Context of evaluation Peter of Mantua Mesino de Codronchi Medieval logic Paradoxes | |||||||||
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