Pirmasis logikos amžius Lietuvoje

Abstract

This article deals with logical level of theory of universals, involved in logic in Lithuania in the 16th century – the first century of professional Lithuanian logic. The author of the article focuses on a way in which representatives of above mentioned logic (namely, M. Śmiglecki and D. Ortiz) interpreted properties (propria) of universal as such. The article ends with two conclusions. The first one maintains that both Śmiglecki and Ortiz attributed to universal traditional scholastic propria. Namely, universal was regarded as immaterial and incorruptible nature predicable of its individuals as well as object of sciences and accident of human intellect. The second conclusion asserts that Śmiglecki has not confined himself to propria of universal. That is, he also analysed a certain relation peculiar to universal, namely, distinction between universal and its inferiors. Adhering to Scotist position, Śmiglecki regarded this distinction as formal one.