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- History of logic, history of the discipline from ancient times to the present day. The systematic study of logic was first undertaken by Aristotle. From the Renaissance until the early 19th century Aristotle’s system of formal reasoning, known as syllogistic, was widely regarded as the sum of the discipline.
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history of logic, the history of the discipline from its origins among the ancient Greeks to the present time. Origins of logic in the West Precursors of ancient logic. There was a medieval tradition according to which the Greek philosopher Parmenides (5th century bce) invented logic while living on a rock in Egypt.
The history of logic deals with the study of the development of the science of valid inference ( logic ). Formal logics developed in ancient times in India, China, and Greece. Greek methods, particularly Aristotelian logic (or term logic) as found in the Organon, found wide application and acceptance in Western science and mathematics for ...
Sep 16, 2000 · Typically, a logic consists of a formal or informal language together with a deductive system and/or a model-theoretic semantics. The language has components that correspond to a part of a natural language like English or Greek. The deductive system is to capture, codify, or simply record arguments that are valid for the given language, and the ...
Dec 13, 2006 · Aristotle is the first great logician in the history of logic. His logic was taught by and large without rival from the 4 th to the 19 th centuries CE.
Various logical formal systems or logics have been developed in the 20th century and it is the task of the philosophy of logic to classify them, to show how they are related to each other, and to address the problem of how there can be a manifold of logics in contrast to one universally true logic.
Mar 18, 2000 · Aristotle’s logic, especially his theory of the syllogism, has had an unparalleled influence on the history of Western thought. It did not always hold this position: in the Hellenistic period, Stoic logic, and in particular the work of Chrysippus, took pride of place.
