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CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Notes 5 Chap. 1 : Intuition, abstraction, and mental language 6 1. Intuitive and abstractive cognitions 7 2. Mental language 11 3. Abstraction and universals 13 4. Intuition and singular terms 16 5. Mixed cognitions and singular terms of the third type 21 6. Ockham's representationalism 24 Notes 27 Chap. 2 : Intellectual acts 36 1. Mental acts and habitus 39 2. From the fictum to the actus 46 3. The rejection of intelligible species 47 3.1 Species as preconditions for intellectual acts 49 3.2 The Razor argument against intelligible species 52 4. Combining acts 53 4.1 Simple and complex units 54 4.2 Propositional acts 58 4.3 Judicative acts 61 Notes 77 Chap. 3 : Concepts as signs 77 1. The problem : How can a concept ever be a sign ? 81 2. The two meanings of signum 87 3. Conceptual roles 90 4. Atomism or propositionalism ? 94 5. Types and tokens 101 Notes 107 CHAP. 4 : CONNOTATIVE TERMS IN MENTAL LANGUAGE 1. Connotative terms 2. Mental connotation 3. Synonymy and nominal definitions 4. Connotative terms and exponible propositions Appendix : A reply to Richard Gaskin Notes Chap. 5 : The role of nominal definitions 1. Four theses about nominal definitions 2. What defining amounts to : a reconstruction 3. Some consequences 3.1 Definitions and abbreviations 3.2 Possession of concepts and knowledge of definitions 3.3 Real orderings Notes Chap. 6 : Cognition and connotation 1. Spade's questions 2. The acquisition of simple connotative concepts 3. The adequacy of nominal definitions 4. Ockham and the Classical View Notes Chap. 7 : Concepts as similitudes 1. Similitude sustained 2. Acts and similarities 3. Varieties of conceptual representation 3.1 Absolute specific quality concepts 3.2 Specific concepts of substances 3.3 Simple connotative concepts 3.4 Simple generic concepts 4. Two problems about absolute concepts 4.1 Klima's objection 4.2 Brown's puzzle Notes Chap. 8 : Logical concepts 1. The earlier theory : logical words internalized 2. Logical constants in the actus-theory 3. Prepositions and non-standard copulas Notes Chap. 9 : The Meaning of words 1. Subordination 2. Types and tokens again 3. Reverse subordination ? The instructive case of proper names Notes Conclusion Notes Bibliography
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: William, of Ockham, ca, 1285-ca, 1349, Philosophy, Medieval, Concepts