William of Heytesbury

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Education Merton College, Oxford
Died 1400, Oxford, United Kingdom Books On maxima and minima, On "insoluble" Sentences: Chapter One of His Rules for Solving Sophisms

William of Heytesbury, or William Heytesbury, called in Latin Guglielmus Hentisberus or Tisberus (c. 1313 – 1372/1373), was an English philosopher and logician, best known as one of the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a fellow.

Life

Heytesbury had become a fellow of Merton by 1330. In his work he applied logical techniques to the problems of divisibility, the continuum, and kinematics. His magnum opus was the Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for Solving Sophisms), written about 1335.

He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the year 1371 to 1372.

Works

1335 - Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for Solving Sophisms)

1. On insoluble sentences

2. On knowing and doubting

3. On relative terms

4. On beginning and ceasing

5. On maxima and minima

6. On the three categories (De tribus praedicamentis)'

1483 - De probationibus conclusionum tractatus regularum solvendi sophismata (On the Proofs of Conclusions from the Treatise of Rules for Resolving Syllogisms) - Pavia

Liber Calculationum

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