The Beginnings of Formal Logic: Deduction in Aristotle’s ...

Aristotle’s Demonstrative Logic JOHN CORCORAN Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-4150, USA Received 17 December 2007 Revised 29 April 2008 Demonstrative logic, the study of demonstration as opposed to persuasion, is the subject of Aristotle’s two-volume Analytics. Many examples are geometrical. ................
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