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The project investigates the historical transition from the rejection of impossible concepts in medieval logic to the acceptance of complex numbers in mathematics. It explores how 14th-century semantics, particularly by Marsilius of Inghen, contributed to this shift, aiming to provide a comprehensive analysis of the in…
A popular view in the history of philosophy and science holds that we only conceive what is in some sense possible and cannot truly understand anything intrinsically contradictory.
The Chimera is the paradigmatic example of such an inconceivable absolute impossibility in medieval logic. ""Chimera"" is a necessarily empty term lacking signification and reference.
Analogously premodern mathematics dismisses the square root of a negative number as the impossible result of an impossible operation, i…
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