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Excerpt that defines Medieval logic and lists some medieval terms of logic. 

From pages 43-44 of Foundations of modern science in the Middle Ages, by Edward Grant.

Logic was a technical subject that developed a terminology of its own to cope with a host of problems of language and inference. It was concerned with the properties of terms and how the context of a term affected its meaning, as well as with the relationships between propositions. Over the course of logic's medieval history, a large number of problems were encountered that required the invention of new terms and techniques. [...] terms such as "supposition," "signification," "univocation," "copulation," appellation," "ampliation," "restriction," "categorematic," "syncategorematic," "consequences," "obligations," "exponibilia," "sophismata," and "insolubilia."

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