Sophismata
Sophismata (from the Latin plural of the Greek word meaning 'sophism') im Medieval philosophy are difficult or puzzling sentences presenting difficulties of logical analysis that must be solved. Sophismata-literature grew in importance during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and many important developments in philosophy (particularly in logic and natural philosophy) occurred as a result of investigations into sophismata.
Sophismata
[In progress]
Primary Sources
Author | Collection | Manuscripts |
Anonymus | Abstractiones Digbeianae | Oxf. Bodl. Digby 2 : 123r-140v. |
Anonymus | Abstractiones Regiae | London BL Royal 12.F.xix: 112vA-115rB. |
Anonymus | Abstractiones Venetae | Ven. Marc. Z. 302: 167vA-170vA. |
Anonymus | Ars sophistica (Dist. 2.26) | Praha MK M.80 : 155vB-156vB (?) |
Anonymus | De hac dictione 'semper' | Paris BN lat. 8802 (26v.) |
Anonymus | De hoc verbo 'vult' | Paris BN lat. 3454 (163r.) |
Anonymus | De signativis dictionibus | Cambr. Gonville & Caius 434/434: 21vA-22vB. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones 2.21 | Avranches BN 224: 1r-3v.. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones 2.22 (Sophistaria Morguntina) | Meinz, Stadtbibliothek 616, 1rA-29vB. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones 2.23 | Paris 4720A: 45rA-52vB. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones Parisienses "Notandum" | Paris BN lat. 4720A: 67vA-69vB. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones sophismatum " circa singula " (Dist. 2.25(1)) | Paris BN lat. 15170: 24rA-34vB. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones sophismatum 2.25(2) | Paris BN lat. 15170: 35rA-36rA. |
Anonymus | Distinctiones sophismatum 2.25(3) | Paris BN lat. 15170: 58rB… |
Anonymus | Opus puerorum | Ms Amiens, BM, 406: 130rA-154vA. |
Anonymus | Regulae syncategorematum | Ms Vat. Lat. 4546 Ir-v+1r-11r. |
Anonymus | Sophismata de signativis universalibus | Ms Erfurt, CA 4o276: 2rA-4rB. |
Anonymus | Sophisma ? | Cambr. G.&C. 512/543 (~5-6.) |
Anonymus | Sophisma " Nihil nihil est " | Paris BN lat. 3454: 184v. |
Anonymus | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 16618: 137r-152v. |
Anonymus | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 15170 (~52v-53v.) |
Anonymus | Sophismata | Madrid 1565: 79rA-113rA + 105-113 ? |
Anonymus | Sophismata Canonicana media | Oxford Bodl. Canon. Class. Lat. 311: 35vA-36vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Canonicana posteriora | Oxford Bodl. Canon. Class. Lat. 311: 37rA-40vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Canonicana priora | Oxford Bodl. Canon. Class. Lat. 311: 9rA-33vA. |
Anonymus | Sophismata determinata a maioribus magistris Parisius tam gallicis quam anglicis | Vat. lat. 7678:1rA-72vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata gramaticalia | Paris BN lat. 3454: 45rA-48rA. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Ionannina altera | Cambr. St. John’s College D.25: 87r-93v. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Ionannina prima | Cambr. St. John’s College D.25: 75rA-75vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Ionannina quarta | Cambr. St. John’s College D.25: 96r-100r. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Ionannina quinta | Cambr. St. John’s College D.25:107rA-112vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Ionannina tertia | Cambr. St. John’s College D.25: 95(bis)r. |
Anonymus | Sophismata monacensia 3852 | Ms München, BSB, clm 3852: 44rA-53vA. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Norimbergensia | Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent.V.21: 54r-58r, 77v-79v, 125rA-B. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Orielensia | Oxford, Bodlian Lib. Oriel 33: 385vA-410vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Palatina | Vat. Pal. lat. 1202: 245r-250r & 279r-288v. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Parisina 16089 | Paris, BN lat. 16089? |
Anonymus | Sophismata Parisina nal 1374 | Ms Paris, BNF, n.a.l. 1374: 87rA-109rA |
Anonymus | Sophismata Pragensia | Praha Mk 83 : 1-66vB ? |
Anonymus | Sophismata Upsaliensia | MS Uppsala, BU, C.604: 82rA-92vB |
Anonymus | Sophismata variorum | Cambridge, G.&C. 611/341: 47vB-60vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Vaticana 14812 | Vat. lat. 14812 (formerly 14718.) |
Anonymus | Sophismata Vaticana 3061 | Vat. lat. 3061: 22vA-45rA. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Vaticana Palatina 1202 | Vat. Pal. Lat. 1202, 245-250. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Veneta altera | Ven. Marc. lat. Z.302: 170vA-176vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Veneta prima | Ven. Marc. lat. Z.302: 56rA-119vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Veneta tertia | Ven. Marc. lat. Z.302: 194vB-195rA & 190rA-194vB, 196rB-198vB. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Veneta Ultima | Ven. Marc. lat. Z.302: 199rA-240vA. |
Anonymus | Sophismata Wigorniensia | Worcester Q.13 : 21-53 + 22v-66v + 74r-76r. |
Anonymus | Tractatus de distinctionibus sophismatum, De Rijk 2.13 | Cambridge G&C 344/540; Erfurt 4° 276. |
Anonymus | Tractatus Florianus de solutionibus sophismatum | Ed. De Rijk 1988 (Sankt Florian, Stiftsbiliothek XI, 632: 42rA-51vB.) |
Anonymus | Tractatus Vaticanus de communibus distinctionibus | Ed. De Rijk 1988 (Vat. lat. 7678: 73rA-82rA.) |
Anonymus | Tractatus Vaticanus de multiplicitatibus circa orationes accidentibus | Ed. De Rijk 1988 (Vat. lat. 7678: 82rB-88rA.) |
Anonymus (Iohannes Dacus, Petrus de Insula & al.) | Sophismata Mantuana | Mantova, BC, D. II.19. |
Anonymus Alani | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 16135: 38rA-103vB. |
Anonymus Catacheus | Sophismata | Paris, BN lat. 3572: 26rA-33vB & 167vA-167rB, 169vA-B, 170rA-171vB. |
Anonymus Cracoviensis | Sophismata | Kraków BJ 649: 253rA-271vB. |
Anonymus Erfordensis | Sophismata | Erfurt WAB 4° 328: 1rA-73vB. |
Anonymus GC466 | Quaestio sophismatica | Cambridge, G&C 466/573: 108v. |
Anonymus Liberanus | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 16135: 3rA-37rB. |
Anonymus Oriel33(2) | Sophismata | Oxford, Oriel 33: 385vA-410vB. |
Anonymus Tabarroneus | Sophismata | München BSB Clm 14522 (1-71?) |
Anonymus Victorinus | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 15170 (~23r-v) |
Bartholomaeus de Brugis | Sophismata | Leipzig UB 1444; Vat. Pal. lat. 1202; Flaconara Mar. 11. |
Boethius de Dacia | Sophismata | Firenze Laur. St. Croce 12 sin., 3; Bruge SB 509. |
Dionysius de Cauda | Sophisma | Falconara Marittima, Archivio dei Frati minori delle Marche, 11: 204rA-207rA |
Gualterus Burlaeus | De puritate artis logicae, tractatus brevior | Ed. Boehner 1955 (Los Angeles, Hoose Library 6; Vat. lat. 3066.) |
Gualterus Burlaeus | De puritate artis logicae, tractatus longior | Ed. Boehner 1955 (Erfurt 4° 259 & 4° 291, Brugge 501, München Clm 1060.) |
Gualterus Burlaeus | Quaest. Arist. int. | Ed. Brown 1973 (Cambridge, G.&C. 512/543 (~102-107).) |
Gualterus de Alliaco | Sophisma | Vat. lat. 3061 (~30-40.) |
Guillelmus Dalling | Sophisma | Cambridge, Gonville & Caius 512/543. |
Guillelmus de Hennore | Sophisma ‘Sola species definitur’ | Cambr. Gonville & Caius 512/543: 23vB & 44rA-46rB. |
Guillelmus de Shyreswode | Syncategoremata | Ed. O’Donnell 1941 (Paris BN lat. 16617; Oxford, Bodl., Digby 55.) |
Henricus Gandavensis | Syncategoremata | Ed. Braakhuis 1979, 1 (Brugge 510: 227rA-237rB; Erfurt WAB F.135: 60-85vB.) |
Hervaeus Sophista | Abstractiones | Ed. De Libera 1986 (Paris BN lat. 15170: 48vA-5252vA..) |
Iohannes Dacus, Petrus de Alvernia, Anonymus | Sophismata | Paris BN lat. 16089. |
Johannes Pagus | Syncategoremata | Ed. Braakhuis 1979, 1 (Paris BN lat. 15170: 63rA-70vB, 46rA-48rB.) |
Matthaeus Aurelianensis | Sophistaria | Ed. Spruyt 2001 (Barcelona, Arch. De la Corona de Aragon, Ripoll 109: 278rA-309vB; Vat. Lat. 4546: 1r-305r; Paris BN 16618: 119r-136v.) |
Nicolaus Parisiensis | Syncategoremata | Ed. Braakhuis 1979, 2 (Paris, BN lat.11412: 41r-81r.) |
Petrus de Alvernia | Sophismata | Firenze Laur. St. Croce 12 sin., 3; Brugge |
Petrus de Alvernia apud Anonymum | Sophismata variorum | Cambridge, Gonville & Caius 611/341. |
Petrus de Colonia | Sophisma | Vat. lat. 3061: 29rB-31rB |
Petrus de Insula | Sophismata | Falconara Marittima, Archivio dei Frati minori delle Marche, 11: 191rB-204rA |
Petrus Hispanus | Syncategoreumata | Ed. De Rijk 1992. |
Radulphus Brito | Sophismata | Vat. lat. 2173 ; Vat. Lat. 3061. |
Richardus, magister abstractionum. | Abstractiones | Oxford Digby 24 ; Brugge SB 497 . |
Robert Bacon | Syncategoremata | Ed. Braakhuis 1979, 1 (Erfurt WAB Q.328: 74rA-93vB; Oxford Digby 204: 88rA-100vB.) |
Robertus Anglicus | (Sophismata?) | |
Roger Bacon | Summa de sophismatibus et distinctionibus | Ed. Steele 1940 (Oxford, Digby 67: 117r-124v.) |
Sigerus de Cortraco | Sophismata | München clm 3852: 50rA- 51rA & Paris, BNF, lat. 16222: 5vA-8vA, Vat. Ottob. lat. 2520: 246v-252r. |
Simon de Faverisham | Sophisma | München, Clm 3852; Vat. lat. 2173 |
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External links
- Sophismata project run by Alain de Libera at the University of Geneva
- Catalogue of sophismata
- Sophismata in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy