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an unnecessary mediator between object and cognition. As a terminist logician he
was more interested in the question if intentions are to be identified with mental
terms, a question which will be discussed in one of the next chapters.
Conclusion
The foregoing pages were devoted to a period of only fifty years, which in the course
of the history of logic could be considered as an intermezzo. The developments
in terminist logic seem to be interrupted by a period of metalogical concerns,
as if the authors needed a moment of reflection, concentrating for a while on
the scientific foundations of the art of logic. In my view, the most important
results of these reflections were Roger Bacon’s formation of a theory of signs,
Duns Scotus’ rejection of the parallelism between signifying and understanding
and Peter Aureol’s clean way of applying the parallelism between thought and
reality. These philosophers paved the way for the innovations of 14th century
logic.
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