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    Peter of Mantua

    medievalMedieval Scholasticism (Terminist Logic)

    1340 – 1400

    Peter of Mantua (d. 1399/1400) was a late medieval Italian logician and natural philosopher associated with the University of Bologna and Padua. He is best known for his work on logic, particularly his Logica, which engaged with problems of consequence, obligations, and epistemic puzzles in the tradition of terminist logic.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Authored the Logica, an influential late-medieval treatise on logic

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    Contributed to theories of consequence and obligational disputation

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    Engaged with epistemic and semantic puzzles anticipating later Gettier-style concerns

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    Taught at major Italian universities including Bologna and Padua

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    Advanced the terminist tradition of logical analysis

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    The 'no false lemmas' condition is not a successful general solution to the Gettier problem

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    Medieval Scholasticism (Terminist Logic)

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