Abstract
This chapter examines how Ockham’s theory of mental language eventually won the field among his immediate successors. It first reviews a controversy among Dominican authors on whether there really is a mental language composed of concepts, and then another series of discussions over what syntactic structure exactly such a mental language could have. And it finally focuses on the idea of mental language in John Buridan, arguably the most important philosopher of the fourteenth century after Ockham.
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