Quote: Boole reduced Aristotle's syllogisms and conversions to symbolic logic; scholastic logic is a collection of truths, not a foundation

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The logical system of Aristotle ... occupies so important a place in academical education, that some account of its nature, and some brief discussion of the leading problems which it presents, seem to be called for in the present work ... [p. 228] The course which I design to pursue is to show how these processes of Syllogism and Conversion may be conducted in the most general manner upon the principles of the present treatise, ... [p. 241] To what final conclusions are we then led respecting the nature and extent of the scholastic logic? I think to the following: that it is not a science, but a collection of scientific truths, too incomplete to form a system of themselves, and not sufficiently fundamental to serve as the foundation upon which a perfect system may rest.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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