The "Abstractiones": A Tradition in Evolution

• Autores: Mary J. Sirridge
• Localización: Bulletin de philosophie médiévale, ISSN 0068-4023, Nº. 53, 2011, págs. 61-80
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this essay, the structure and content of the Abstractiones, a mid-thirteenthcentury collection of sophismata ascribed to a 'Magister Ricardus', are described. It is then argued that the text of the Abstractiones itself together with its "descendant" works present us with a case of textual evolution: the main text appears itself to be the result of patchwork and development, with each manuscript in effect a variation of the work; the descendant works continue the job of modifying the text, now so selectively and radically that they can no longer be described as versions of the Abstractiones itself.