RE: VMs: De modis significandi sive grammatica speculativa

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Florin

Your post is intriguing and elliptic; here is a bit
more about this book and his author:

http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/8246/gramspec.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/erfurt/

"Thomas of Erfurt belonged to an interesting though
somewhat obscure group of late 13th- and early
14th-century philosophers known as the speculative
grammarians or Modistae. The term ?speculative
grammarian? is ambiguous because it is also used by
historians of medieval philosophy to refer to
12th-century Parisian grammar masters such as William
of Conches, Peter Helias, and Ralph of Beauvais, who
systematically revised the ancient grammars of Donatus
and Priscian -- textbooks which had been used to teach
Latin to schoolboys -- in order to produce a universal
semantics.[7]  The two groups are related, as it turns
out, since the latter-day grammarians adopted many of
the theories as well as the universalizing tendencies
of their 12th-century predecessors. Foremost among
them was the theory of the modi significandi, or modes
of signifying. The term ?Modistae? or ?Modist?
properly refers to the later group."

Interesting...but somewhat obscure group, ey, why not?

Jean

--- Florin <ifthink@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Could it be that the vms author was inspired by this
> book written by
> Thomas of Erfurt ?
> 
> Regards,
> Florin
>
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