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<jats:p>This study comments on six <jats:italic>notabilia</jats:italic> found in the general observations (<jats:italic>praemittenda</jats:italic>) with which Brinkley begins his treatise on supposition in his <jats:italic>Summa logicae: i)</jats:italic> the logico-metaphysical explanation of the distinction between <jats:italic>significatio</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>suppositio</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>ii)</jats:italic> the ontic division principle of supposition, <jats:italic>iii)</jats:italic> the relationship between <jats:italic>supposita</jats:italic> and truth-makers, <jats:italic>iv)</jats:italic> what seems to be a late (and English) resurgence of natural supposition, <jats:italic>v)</jats:italic> a pragmatic suspension of the <jats:italic>regula appellationum</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>vi)</jats:italic> Brinkley’s apparently incompatible claims that there are communicable things <jats:italic>and</jats:italic> that there are only singular things, a position that is a medieval form of immanent realism. Based on the two manuscripts that contain the treatise on supposition, an appendix offers a provisional edition of part of Brinkley’s <jats:italic>Summa</jats:italic>, a collaboration between the author and Joël Lonfat.</jats:p>
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