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Dialectical Disputations, Volume 2

Books II-III

Lorenzo Valla

Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver

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    • Dialectical Disputations
      • Book II
        • Proem
        • 1. What constitutes a sentence?
        • 2. What is denominative, equivocal and univocal?
        • 3. What kinds of sentence are there and how many?
        • 4. On converting a sentence
        • 5. How many signs are there and how do they differ?
        • 6. On the effect of negating with a universal sign
        • 7. On composite negation adjoined to a sign
        • 8. On the difference between particular and singular signs when they take a negation
        • 9. On the difference between composites with ‘non-’ or ‘not-’ and those with ‘in-’ or ‘un-’ for ‘not-’
        • 10. How many signs are particular and how many singular?
        • 11. On the stupidity of those who use negation incorrectly, and on the most acceptable use of negation
        • 12. That being unjust is no different than being not just, and likewise in similar cases
        • 13. On the opposition of sentences
        • 14. On contraries
        • 15. On subcontraries
        • 16. On contradictories
        • 17. On subalternates
        • 18. That opposition is not in four parts
        • 19. That sentences are not ‘modal,’ what every proof aims at, and through what
        • 20. Transition to places of arguments, taken from Quintilian
        • 21. On technical proof
        • 22. On signs
        • 23. On arguments
      • Book III
        • Proem
        • 1. The origin of ‘dialectic’ and ‘logic,’ what a syllogism is, what its components are, and also what a proposition is
        • 2. On the order of the syllogism’s parts
        • 3. On the four moods of the first figure
        • 4. Sometimes a sign is applied to the predicate, and sometimes there is no sign in the whole syllogism.
        • 5. On the syllogism as wholly particular or singular
        • 6. Syllogisms by whole and part
        • 7. On the last five moods of the first figure, which must all be rejected
        • 8. On the same number of moods in the second figure as in the first, and that the first can be converted into the second
        • 9. The third figure must be completely disallowed.
        • 10. On the hypothetical syllogism
        • 11. Certain words make a syllogism complex, with several parts.
        • 12. On heaping
        • 13. On the dilemma and antistrophe or reversal
        • 14. That special consideration is to be given to the weight of words
        • 15. Teachings on examples from Quintilian
        • 16. On induction
        • 17. On the enthymeme
        • Summation
    • Appendix I: Dialectical Disputation 1.13 γ: What Is God?
    • Appendix II: Valla’s Letter to Giovanni Serra, with Selections from His Defense Against the Inquisition of Naples
    • Appendix III: Dialectic, Propositions, and the Square of Opposition
    • Appendix IV: Some Features of Traditional Syllogistic and Place Logic
    • Note on the Text
    • Notes to the Text
    • Abbreviations
    • Notes to the Translation
    • Bibliography
    • Index