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SENSUS COMPOSITIONIS A SENSUS DIVISIONIS
V KONTEXTU PROBLÉMU MODALIT
V ORDINATIO I, 39 JANA DUNSE SCOTA
Jiří Polívka
SUMMARIUM
Sensus compositionis et sensus divisionis
propositionum modalium
in Scoti Ordinatione I, 39
In Ordinatione I, 39 Scotus duplicem modum, quo propositiones modales in sensum compositionis et sensum divisionis distingui possint, proponit. Primum nempe, quo divisio aut compositio secundum (diversum aut idem) instans temporis fiat. Alterum, quo in eodem instanti aut compossibilitas praedicatorum contradictoriorum (sensus compositionis), aut actualitas unius et possibilitas alterius (sensus divisionis) affirmetur. Auctor in dissertatione singulos horum diversorum sensuum analysi formali subiecit, et Scotum modalitatem a temporalitate, et contingentiam a mutabilitate, clare separavisse manifestat.
SUMMARY
Sensus compositionis and Sensus divisionis
in the Context of the Problem of Modalities
in Scotus's Ordinatio I, 39
In Ordinatio I, 39 Scotus distinguishes two ways in which the distinction between sensus compostionis and sensus divisionis can be made: According to the first way the "composition and division" relates to two different (sensus divisionis) or one and the same (sensus compositionis) instants of time; according to the other the distinction is made between an assertion of compossibility of the contradictory predicates in one and the same instant of time (sensus compositionis) and an assertion of actuality of the one and possibility of the other of the contradictory predicates in one and the very same instant of time (sensus divisionis). The author presents a formal logical analysis of all these various senses of modal propositions and shows how Scotus strictly separated modality from temporality, and contingency from mutability.
