Lambert of Auxerre was a medieval 13th century logician best known for writing the book "Summa Lamberti" or simply "Logica" [1] in the mid 1250s which became an authoritative textbook on logic in the Western tradition.[2] He was a Dominican in the Dominican house at Auxerre. His contemporaries were Peter of Spain, William of Sherwood, and Roger Bacon.[3]

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  1. ^ The Summa Lamberti is now attributed to Lambert of Lagny (Lambertus de Latiniaco) (fl. 1250): see A. de Libera (1982).
  2. ^ Gabbay, Dov M.; Woods, John (2008-03-14). Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080560854.
  3. ^ Kretzmann, Norman; Stump, Eleonore (1988-01-01). The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 1, Logic and the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521280631.

"Lambert of Auxerre" entry by Sara L. Uckelman in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy