Authors/Ockham/Summa Logicae/Book III-3

PART III-3: OF CONSEQUENCES

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Chapters 1-37: on Aristotle's Topics

• Chapter 1 Of the mode of arguing by consequences, and arguments which do not have syllogistic form. And first, how many modes are there of so-called consequences?
• Chapter 2 On the general rules by which consequences hold through an intrensic medium and conclude a universal.
• Chapter 3 On the Rules by which the Universal Affirmative is inferred with respect to determined Predicates.
• Chapter 4 Concerning the rules by which consequences inferring the universal negative hold.
• Chapter 5 Concerning the rules which are not observed with respect to any predicates.
• Chapter 6 On the rules that govern the consequences between particulars or indefinites.
• Chapter 7 On the rules of inferring an affirmative from an affirmative through an external medium.
• Chapter 8 Concerning the rules by which the consequences hold that infer the negative from the negative.
• Chapter 9 On the rules governing consequences inferring a negative from a positive or the converse.
• Chapter 10 On the rules governing consequences following from modal propositions; and first when both the antecedent and the consequence are in the same mode.
• Chapter 11 On the rules that govern consequences from one proposition of essence and another of a mode.
• Chapter 12 On the rules by which the consequences hold that are made from propositions of different modes
• Chapter 13 On the comparison of the modes for conversion.
• Chapter 14 Concerning the equivalent propositions in which the 'necessary' mode is placed.
• Chapter 15 On the opposition and contingency of propositions of contingency.
• Chapter 16 On the equivalence of propositions about the impossible.
• Chapter 17 On the rules that govern consequences in which some terms supposit simply or materially.
• Chapter 18 On the rules by which problems of genera are constructed or decomposed.
• Chapter 19 On the rules by which it is inferred that some thing is a property of another.
• Chapter 20 On the rules by which it is inferred that something is or is not a property of something else.
• Chapter 21 On the property that is composed of genus and accidental differences.
• Chapter 22 On definition: What is it?
• Chapter 23 In how many modes a definition is stated
• Chapter 24 On the rules that govern the consequences by which something is inferred to be the definition of another.
• Chapter 25 On definition given by addendum.
• Chapter 26 On the definition expressing what a term means.
• Chapter 27 On the rules by which something can be proved to be a species of something else.
• Chapter 28 On the rules by which it can be proved that womething is different from another thing.
• Chapter 29 On same and different.
• Chapter 30 On the rules governing consequences that are the same and different.

On induction

• Chapter 31 On the species of argument called 'induction'
• Chapter 32 How induction comes about in assertoric propositions
• Chapter 33 On the induction of universal modal propositions
• Chapter 34 How singular modal propositions in the sense of composition are related to universal modal propositions in the sense of composition
• Chapter 35 On the induction of universal de possibili' propositions
• Chapter 36 On the induction of universal de contintenti' propositions
• Chapter 37 On the rules by which something can be proved to be equivocal

Chapters 38-45: Obligationes

• Chapter 38 On general and commonly used rules
• Chapter 39 On the rules that pertain to the obligatory art. And first about institution.
• Chapter 40 On the second type of obligation, which is called petition.
• Chapter 41 On the third type of obligation, which is called position. How is it different from case?
• Chapter 42 What is a position of the impossible?
• Chapter 43 On the fourth type of obligation, which is called deposition.
• Chapter 44 On the fifth type of obligation, qhuch is called uncertainty.
• Chapter 45 Of the sixth type of obligation, in which it is posited 'let it be true'.

Chapter 46: on the Liar paradox

• Chapter 46 On insolubles.