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This monograph was composed in 1985. The twelfth century French Philosopher, Pierre Abelard’s theory of Mental Images and Pure Forms is obviously the most comprehensive intellectual exercise. It is the true precursor of modern semiology. It traces have been perceived in the general French tradition of the Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of Rene Descartes, Port Royal Logic, Condillac and Destutt de Tracy. Aberlard’s pioneering work in areas of contemporary philosophical concern, namely, language, logic, and metaphysics, as well as independent spirit in ethics and theology, virtually guaranteed that he would be among the first medieval thinkers to be taken up and championed within the Anglo-American philosophical tradition. The essays in this book highlights philosophically valuable areas of Abelard’s thought that have until now been neglected, showing wherever possible precisely how Abelard’s views contribute to current debates in philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical theology, and ethics.