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His main work was the ''De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior'', in which he covers such topics as the truth conditions for complex sentences, both Truth-functional and Modal , as well as providing rules of inferences for different types of inferences. He was one of the first logicians to recognize the priority of the Propositional Calculus over the Predicate Calculus , despite the fact that the latter had been the main focus of logicians up until this period.

Other works include:
  • ''Treatise on Suppositions''

  • ''In Aristotelis Perihermenias'' (''Questions on Aristotle's Perihermenias'', 1301)



REFERENCES

  • Broadie, Alexander. ''Introduction to Medieval Logic'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).

  • Walter Burley. ''De Puritate Artis Logicae Tractatus Longior, with a revised edition of the Tractatus Brevior'', ed. P. Boehner (New York: 1955).



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  NAME Burley, Walter
  ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burlaeus, Gualterus Gualterus Burlaeus Burleigh, Walter Gualterius Burleus Anglicus
  SHORT DESCRIPTION English logician
  DATE OF BIRTH 1275
  PLACE OF BIRTH Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire
  DATE OF DEATH 1344/1345