Product Description: An edition of five of the shorter political writings of the medieval philosopher William Ockam: Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico , De imperatorum et pontificum potestate , the Compendium errorum and two texts for which Ockham's authorship is uncertain - Allegationes de potestate imperiali and De electione Caroli quarti ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Includes an introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams along with Notes and Appendices.

Product Description: In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. His discussion includes what he takes to be the correct semantic treatment of quantified propositions, past tense and future tense propositions, and modal propositions, all of which are receiving much attention from contemporary philosophers...read more