Amos Corbini

In Posterior Analytics, Aristotle deals with three predicative characters peculiar to the scientific argumentation: they are named κατὰ παντός, καθ’αὑτό and καθόλου. The third seems much less important than the first and the second in the medieval tradition. Buridan’s treatment of universale (καϑ όλου) requirement in his Questions on Posterior Analytics, however, is significant for many reasons. First, Buridan synthesizes the main themes about this topic in a personal and theoretically engaged way; so, his exegesis overcomes in width and depth the not so abundant suggestions we find in XIII-century exegesis...