Theorizing on Dispute. The teaching of Dialect at Louvain University ( 1425-1645) KU Leuven
This dissertation contains a study of theories of topical logic (or dialectic). Topical logic goes back to Aristotle (384-322 BC), who initiated the study of logic in the West, and it formed an integral part of logic until deep into the seventeenth century. Our knowledge of how topical logic developed through the centuries is still very fragmentary, however. This dissertation aims to shed new light on the evolution of the discipline from ...