Logic Flashcards
syllogistic logic. Fundamental elements are terms and arguments
Aristotle
one of the founders of stoic school, developed rules for the truth or falsity of af compound proposition
Chrysippus
theory of compound syllogism
Galen
wrote commentaries about aristotle and chrysippus
Boethius
modal logic, concept of metalanguage
William of ocka,
originated theory of universals. Concept of validity and invalidity
Peter Abelard
developed calculus, father of symbolic logic
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
lebniz’s successor
Bernard Bolzano
Initiated the revival of inductive logic, methods of induction
John Stuart Mill
4 philosophers who continued to develop symbolic logic
Augustus DeMorgan, George Boole, William Stanley Jevons, John Venn
His Begriffschirft set forth the theory of quantification
Gottlog Frege
Their Principia Mathematica attempted to reduce mathematics to Logic
Bertrand Russel, Alfred North Whitehead
existence of an undecidable formula
Kurt Goedel
Can be defined as the study of the principle of correct reasoning
Logic
thinking with a purpose (to arrive at a conclusion)
inference