John Pagus

John Pagus[1] (/ˈpeɪɡəs/; fl. first half of the 13th century) was a scholastic philosopher at the University of Paris, generally considered the first logician writing at the Arts faculty at Paris.[2]

Life

He is thought to have been a Master of Arts in the 1220s and to have taught Peter of Spain.[3] At that time he was writing on syncategorematic terms.[4][5]

Works

• Appellationes
• Commentary on the Sentences
• Rationes super Predicamenta Aristotelis
• Syncategoremata

Notes

1. John Le Page, Johannes Pagus, Jean Le Page, Jean Lepage.
2. Bertil Malmberg, Histoire de la Linguistique, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1991, p. 127.
3. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article Peter of Spain
4. Sten Ebbesen, Russell L. Friedman (editors), Medieval Analyses in Language and Cognition (1999), p. 36.
5. Parts published in H. A. G. Braakhuis, De 13de Eeuwse Tractaten over Syncategorematische Termen. Vol. I, Ph. Diss., Leiden University, 1979.

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. ISBN 3-88309-035-2.
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