The Ramist context of Berkeley's philosophy

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 487-505

  Daniel, Stephen H ^a  

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1. Cf. Fred Wilson, 'Berkeley's Metaphysics and Ramist Logic', in Logic and the Workings of the Mind, ed. Patricia A. Easton (Atascadero, CA., Ridgeview, 1997), 115-28.
2. See Benson Mates, Stoic Logic (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1961), 2;
3. Andreas Graeser, 'The Stoic Theory of Meaning', in The Stoics, ed. John M. Rist (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1978), 89;
4. Claude Imbert, Phénoménologie et langues formulaires (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1992), 68-9, 205.
5. Cf. Walter J. Ong, S. J., Ramus: Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1958), 186.
6. For how this way of thinking appears in the philosophy of Berkeley's contemporaries Jonathan Edwards and Giambattista Vico, see Stephen H. Daniel, The Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards: A Study in Divine Semiotics (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1994), 91-7, 144-5;
7. idem, 'Vico's Historicism and the Ontology of Arguments', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 33 (1995): 431-46. I suspect that it might characterize Leibniz's thought as well.
8. Wilson, 'Berkeley's Metaphysics', 122, 127;
9. Richard Waswo, Language and Meaning in the Renaissance (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1987), 11-13, 101-13;
10. Craig Walton, 'Ramus and Bacon on Method', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 9 (1971): 289;
11. Frederick S. Michael, 'Why Logic Became Epistemology: Gassendi, Port Royal and the Reformation in Logic', in Easton, ed., Logic and the Mind, 4.
12. Cf. Peter Goodrich, 'Ars Bablativa: Ramism, Rhetoric, and the Genealogy of English Jurisprudence', in Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory and Practice, ed. Gregory Leyh (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992), 58-9, 67-70; Ong, Ramus, 66.
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14. idem, 'Ramus and the Art of Judgment', Philosophy and Rhetoric, 3 (1970): 159.;
15. Cf. Rossi, Bacon, 145. 159;
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21. The 1576 edition of the Dialectique substitutes raisonner for disputer. See Rossi, Francis Bacon, 145, 178;
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