Logic; Or, The Art of Thinking

Logic; Or, The Art of Thinking
Title Logic; Or, The Art of Thinking PDF eBook
Author Antoine Arnauld
Publisher
Pages 414
Release 1850
Genre Logic
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The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic

The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic
Title The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic PDF eBook
Author John N. Martin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 242
Release 2019-11-04
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1351249185

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This book sets out for the first time in English and in the terms of modern logic the semantics of the Port Royal Logic (La Logique ou l’Art de penser, 1662-1685) of Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, perhaps the most influential logic book in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its goal is to explain how the Logic reworks the foundation of pre-Cartesian logic so as to make it compatible with Descartes’ metaphysics. The Logic’s authors forged a new theory of reference based on the medieval notion of objective being, which is essentially the modern notion of intentional content. Indeed, the book’s central aim is to detail how the Logic reoriented semantics so that it centered on the notion of intentional content. This content, which the Logic calls comprehension, consists of an idea’s defining modes. Mechanisms are defined in terms of comprehension that rework earlier explanations of central notions like conceptual inclusion, signification, abstraction, idea restriction, sensation, and most importantly within the Logic’s metatheory, the concept of idea-extension, which is a new technical concept coined by the Logic. Although Descartes is famous for rejecting "Aristotelianism," he says virtually nothing about technical concepts in logic. His followers fill the gap. By putting to use the doctrine of objective being, which had been a relatively minor part of medieval logic, they preserve more central semantic doctrines, especially a correspondence theory of truth. A recurring theme of the book is the degree to which the Logic hews to medieval theory. This interpretation is at odds with what has become a standard reading among French scholars according to which this 16th-century work should be understood as rejecting earlier logic along with Aristotelian metaphysics, and as putting in its place structures more like those of 19th-century class theory.

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking
Title Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking PDF eBook
Author Antoine Arnauld
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 328
Release 1996-04-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521483940

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A new translation of the treatise which inspired modern developments in logic and semantic theory.

The Port-Royal Logic

The Port-Royal Logic
Title The Port-Royal Logic PDF eBook
Author Antoine Arnauld
Publisher
Pages 522
Release 1861
Genre Language and logic
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Arguments about Arguments

Arguments about Arguments
Title Arguments about Arguments PDF eBook
Author Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 488
Release 2005-07-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521853279

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This book brings together essays by one of the pre-eminent scholars of informal logic.

The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche

The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche
Title The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche PDF eBook
Author Steven Nadler
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 338
Release 2000-07-03
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521627290

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This Companion contains specially commissioned essays addressing Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically.

The Port Royal Logic, Translated from the French; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix, by T. S. Baynes ... Second Edition, Enlarged

The Port Royal Logic, Translated from the French; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix, by T. S. Baynes ... Second Edition, Enlarged
Title The Port Royal Logic, Translated from the French; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix, by T. S. Baynes ... Second Edition, Enlarged PDF eBook
Author Antoine Arnauld
Publisher
Pages 494
Release 1851
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