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.