Aristotelische diagrammen: eeuwenoud, springlevend. Een stand van zaken in de logische meetkunde (2021), p. 252
by Demey, Lorenz

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Caption

Leuvense collegenota's (ca. 1502) met een Buridanus-achthoek voor de modaal-categorische uitspraken (Saint-Omer, BA., MS 609, f. 223v - 224r.)

Logic

Aristotelian family

Buridan Sigma-4

Boolean complexity

6

Number of labels per vertex (at most)

9

Equivalence between (some) labels of the same vertex

Yes

Analogy between (some) labels of the same vertex

No

Uniqueness of the vertices up to logical equivalence

Yes

Errors in the diagram

No

Geometry

Shape

Octagon (irregular)

Colinearity range

0–2

Coplanarity range

0

Cospatiality range

0

Representation of contradiction

By central symmetry

Vertex description

Conceptual info

No

Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)

No

Form

square

,

circular

Label type

linguistic

Language

Latin

Lexical field

syllogistics

Contains partial sentences or single words

No

Contains abbreviations

Yes

Edge description

Contains definitions of relations

No

Form

bands

Has arrowheads

No

Overlap

Yes

Curved

Yes

Hooked

Yes

As wide as vertices

No

Contains text

Yes

Label type

linguistic

Language

Latin

Contains partial sentences or single words

Yes

Contain abbreviations

Yes

Style

Diagram is colored

No

Diagram is embellished

Yes

Tags

student notebook

;

Leuven

;

duality

Is a reproduction of

Fabri, Johannes, and Allardus Tassart. 1500–1505. Logica Aristotelis. Saint-Omer: Bibliothèque d’Agglomération de Saint-Omer. (fol. 223v)