Jan Dullaert of Ghent Latinized as Ioannis Dullardi (c. 1480 – 19 September 1513) was a Flemish philosopher and logician who lived in France as an Augustinian friar. He elucidated principles of propositional logic in his commentaries on the works of Aristotle published from 1506 to 1509. Dullaert was born in

Ghent Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...

and moved to Paris at the age of fourteen to study and became a student of

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(or John Major 1470–1550) at the

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. In 1509 he shifted to the

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. He received a baccalaureus formatus in theology from the Collège de la Sorbonne and he became a teacher, influencing many scholars of the period including

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, Juan de Celaya and

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. Dullaert is known from about ten books that he contributed to. His student Vives wrote a biography in 1514. Dullaert held a realist view and opposed the

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ideas of the period. His works including those edited by others: *
Quaestiones super octo libros phisicorum Aristotelis necnon super libros de celo et mundo
' (1506) * ''Subtilissime questiones super octo physicorum libros Aristotelis'' (1509, comments on J. Buridanus) * ''Questiones super duos libros peri hermenias Aristotelis una cum ipsius textu eiusque clarissima expositione'' (1509 edited by Juan Martinez Siliceo) * ''Librorum Meteororum ristotelisfacilis expositio'' (1512) * ''Pauli Veneti philosophi clarissimi liber maximus de compositione mundi'' (1512) * Notes on ''Hyginus' Astronomica'' (1512) * ''Tractatus Terminorum'' (1521, edited posthumously, perhaps by Johannes Drabbe Bonicollius) * ''Questiones in librum Predicabilium Porphirii'' (1521) * ''Questiones in librum praedicamentorum Aristotelis'' (c. 1523)

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