La discusión medieval sobre el significado primordial de la palabra : Medieval discussion on the primordial meaning of words

• In the fourteenth century, Duns Scotus tells us about a debate about the primor - dial significate of words – whether it is a thing or a concept. The present article shows that the origin of the debate can be traced back to the first half of the thirteenth century; that initially the debate involves problems of different nature; and that towards the end of the century some masters narrow the use of the notion of signification so as to leave it an explanatory role only in the semiotic domain.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Filosofi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Philosophy (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Signification; Propositional verification; Sign

formation of; Medie- val logic; Medieval semiotics

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)