Adam Parvipontanus[1] or Adam of Balsham (died 1181) was an Anglo-Norman scholastic and churchman. He served as Bishop of St Asaph from 1175 until his death.[2]
Adam was born in Balsham, near Cambridge, England. He studied with Peter Lombard at the University of Paris. He later taught at Paris; among his pupils were John of Salisbury and William of Tyre. He was elected Bishop of St Asaph in Denbighshire, Wales, in 1175.[2] Gabriel Nuchelmans surmises that he may have been the first person to introduce the term enuntiabile, which came to be used in the same sense as dictum.[3]
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Works
- Ars disserendi, on Aristotelian logic.
- De utensilibus, (or Fale tolum) on rare words
Notes
- ^ Adam de Parvo Ponte, Adam du Petit-Pont, Adam of the Little Bridge.
- ^ a b Raymond Klibansky, "Adam (c.1130–1181) (fee required) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 October 2008
- ^ Nuchelmans, p. 169.
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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