The Syllogistic
The Syllogistic Aristotle’s most famous achievement as logician is his theory of inference, traditionally called the syllogistic (though not by Aristotle). That theory is in fact the theory of inferences […]
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syllogism @wikipedia
A syllogism (Greek: συλλογισμός – syllogismos – “conclusion,” “inference”) is a kind of logical argument in which one proposition (the conclusion) is inferred from two or more others (the premises) […]
Aristotelian Syllogisms
Aristotelian Syllogisms after Raymond McCall, Basic Logic (Barnes & Noble, 1967); symbolic apparatus from Elementary Logic, by Benson Mates (Oxford, 1972) Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2002 Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D. […]
Aristotle’s Syllogistic
Aristotle’s Syllogistic Copyright © 2007, S. Marc Cohen via: http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/433/Syllogistic.pdf Aristotle’s Syllogistic – Propositions Propositions consist of two terms (a subject and a predicate) and an indicator of quantity/quality: ‘every’, […]
Aristotle’s Logic
Aristotle’s Logic Copyright © 2007, S. Marc Cohen Revised 12/28/07 via: http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/433/LogicIntro.pdf See also a detailed presentation of syllogism: http://eidetisch.tumblr.com/post/45759556505/aristotles-syllogistic The place of logic in Aristotle’s thought In Metaph. E.1, […]
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