Foundation · a field of logic
Historical Context
Logic did not spring forth fully formed. The long development from antiquity to the modern revolution, and why each step was taken.
- The problem
- How did reasoning about reasoning become a science, and what problem was each era trying to solve when it reshaped logic?
- The turning point
- The recognition, by Kneale & Kneale and others, that logic has a continuous 2,400-year development, not a single invention.
- An open question
- How much of the "modern revolution" was genuinely new, and how much a recovery of Stoic and medieval insight?
The Canon
- The Development of Logic
To study it
- Ancient Logic
- A Treatise of Formal Logic