Logic & Philosophy of Language 1-3

I. INTRODUCTION

3. Historical Background

    1. Classical Logic: Aristotle and the School of Megara (Stoic Philosophers)
    2. Dude, can you tell me how it all began?
    3. Medieval Scholastic Logic
    4. What happened to Logic in the Middle Ages?
    5. Symbolic Logic (also called Mathematical Logic)
    6. How did symbolic logic come about?
    7. The Development of Logic in the Twentieth Century
    8. Tell me the story of logic in recent years.
    9. The Usefulness and Limitations of Symbolic Logic
    10. What's the use of symbolic logic? Its limitations?


THE STORY OF LOGIC

Note to student: You don't need to memorise the contents of this lesson. The overview is enough. As you progress, you will understand more the terms that are used here. At the end of the course, it would be good to come back to this lesson.

NOTE 1: India had developed a method of philosophical discussion among the various schools of thought which consisted of the following steps:

    1. State opponent's case (Purvapaksa or Prior View)
    2. Refutation (Khandana)
    3. Statement and Proof of the Philosopher's own position (Uttarapaksa or Subsequent View, or Siddhanta or Conclusion).

This is comparable to St Thomas's method in the Summa Theologiae

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First Edition. Hong Kong, 27 August 2006