William of Sherwood

  • Mention and execution of the work " Syncategoremata "

William of Sherwood, Latinized Guilelmus de Shyreswood, (c. 1200/1210 in Nottinghamshire; † around 1266/1272 ) was an English logician of the Middle Ages.

Life and work

William was probably born in Nottinghamshire 1200-1210 and studied how many educated people of his former fellow at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in 1252. It is very likely that William taught at the Sorbonne in Paris; its influence on acting there scholastics as Peter Hispanus and Lambert of Auxerre seems to prove this. Roger Bacon was one William to "one of the more famous ways of Christianity." In 1257 he was treasurer of the Cathedral of Lincoln.

The dating of his writing " Summulae immersive introductiones in Logicam " is variously estimated ( 1230-1250 ). Possibly his treatise is earlier than the more common similar Summulae logicales his contemporaries Peter Hispanus. Both works in all cases contain the earliest known versions of the presently available summary of the Aristotelian syllogistic. Widespread but has only slightly more elaborate mnemonic syllogistic Peter Hispanus.

Works

  • Introductiones in Logicam = Introduction to Logic. Lat.-dt., ed. v. Hartmut and Christoph Brands Can. Meiner, Hamburg 1995. ISBN 978-3-7873-1463-8
  • Syncategoremata. Lat.-dt. Text Critical ed., Trans., Initiated and by appointment vers. Can Christoph and Raina Kirchhoff. Meiner, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7873-2196-4
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