Adam Parvipontanus[1] (died 1181) was born in Balsham, near Cambridge, England. Hence, he is also known as Adam of Balsham. He studied with Peter Lombard in Paris. Later he taught there and among his pupils were John of Salisbury and William of Tyre.
Nuchelmans (1973, p. 169) surmises that Adam may have been the first person to introduce the term enuntiabile, which came to be used in the same sense as dictum.
He was elected as bishop of St Asaph in 1175.[2]
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Works
- Ars disserendi, about Aristotelian logic.
- De utensilibus (or Fale tolum) on rare words
Notes
- ^ Adam de Parvo Ponte, Adam du Petit-Pont, Adam of the Little Bridge.
- ^ Raymond Klibansky, "Adam (c.1130–1181) (fee required) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 October 2008
Further reading
- L Minio-Paluello (ed) Twelfth Century Logic: Texts and Studies (Rome 1956)
- Peter Dronke (ed) A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (Cambridge 1988)
- Gabriel Nuchelmans Theories of the Proposition: Ancient and Medieval Conceptions of the Bearers of Truth and Falsity (North-Holland, 1973)
- Richardson, H. G. (October 1941). "The Schools of Northampton in the Twelfth Century". The English Historical Review 56 (224): 595-605.
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