John Pagus (; fl. first half of the 13th century) was a

scholastic philosopher Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism emerged within the monastic schools that translat ...

at the

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, generally considered the first

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...

writing at the Arts faculty at Paris.

Life

He is thought to have been a

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

in the 1220s and to have taught

Peter of Spain __NOTOC__ Peter of Hispania ( la, Petrus Hispanus; Portuguese and es, Pedro Hispano; century) was the author of the ', later known as the ', an important medieval university textbook on Aristotelian logic. As the Latin ''Hispania'' was consider ...

. At that time he was writing on

syncategorematic term In logic and linguistics, an expression is syncategorematic if it lacks a denotation but can nonetheless affect the denotation of a larger expression which contains it. Syncategorematic expressions are contrasted with categorematic expressions, wh ...

s.Parts published in H. A. G. Braakhuis, ''De 13de Eeuwse Tractaten over Syncategorematische Termen''. Vol. I, Ph. Diss., Leiden University, 1979.

Works

*''Appellationes'' *Commentary on the ''

Sentences ''The Four Books of Sentences'' (''Libri Quattuor Sententiarum'') is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the 12th century. It is a systematic compilation of theology, written around 1150; it derives its name from the ''sententiae'' o ...

'' *''Rationes super Predicamenta Aristotelis'' *''Syncategoremata''

Notes

References

* Hein Hansen (ed.) ''John Pagus on Aristotle's Categories. A Study and Edition of the Rationes super Praedicamenta'', Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012. * Alain De Libera, ''Les Appellationes de Jean le Page'', in Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge, 51, 1984 pp. 193–255.

External links

* Jakob Hans Josef Schneider (1992)
"Johannes Pagus (Pagius, Jean le Page, John Page)"
In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 3. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 505–507. .

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