STOIC INFLUENCE IN ABELARD'S CONCEPTION OF <em>STATUS</em> AND <em>DICTUM</em> AS <em>QUASI RES</em> (&#8033;&sigma;&alpha;&nu;&epsilon;&igrave; &tau;&iota;&nu;&#940;).

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  • Guy Hamelin UnB

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v16i1.12437

Keywords:

Abelard, stoicism, ontology, logic

Abstract

In his work, Peter Abelard (1079-1142) highlights two metaphysical notions, which sustain his logical theory: the status and the dictum propositionis, causing respectively both the imposition (impositio) of universal terms and the thuth-value of propositions. Both expressions refer to peculiar ontological natures, in so far as they are not considered things (res), even if they constitute causes. Nevertheless, neither are they ‘nothing’. Abelard calls them ‘quasi-things’ (quasi res). In the present article, we expound first these two essential notions of Abelardian logic before then trying to find the source of this particular metaphysics. Contrary to some important commentators of Abelard’s logic, who consider there to be a strong Platonic influence in this specific conception, we maintain instead, with support from significant texts and in accordance with Abelardian nominalism, that the main ancestry of the metaphysics of our author is principally that ancient stoicism.

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Author Biography

Guy Hamelin, UnB

Professor Doutor no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de Brasília (UnB)

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Published

2010-12-07

How to Cite

HAMELIN, Guy. STOIC INFLUENCE IN ABELARD’S CONCEPTION OF <em>STATUS</em> AND <em>DICTUM</em> AS <em>QUASI RES</em> (&#8033;&sigma;&alpha;&nu;&epsilon;&igrave; &tau;&iota;&nu;&#940;). Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 16, n. 1, p. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v16i1.12437, 2010. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v16i1.12437. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/12437. Acesso em: 16 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2011): Medieval Philosophy

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Artigos Originais

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