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- the syllogistic logic of Aristotle as developed by Boethius in the Middle Ages
How To Use Aristotelian logic In A Sentence
- His most famous work is the Summulae de dialectica (Compendium of Dialectic), a text of astonishing breadth and originality aimed at redeeming the older tradition of Aristotelian logic using the newer, terminist logic of John Buridan
- St. Anselm founded Scholasticism, integrated Aristotelian logic into theology, and believed that reason and revelation are compatible.
- In addition to predicate denial, in which a predicate F is denied of a subject a, Aristotelian logic allows for narrow-scope predicate term negation, in which a negative predicate not-F is affirmed of a. The relation of predicate denial and predicate term negation to a simple affirmative proposition can be schematized on a generalized square of opposition Contradiction
- In it, Buridan redeems the older medieval tradition of Aristotelian logic through the via moderna [modern way] -- i.e., the newer, terminist logic that had gradually replaced it. John Buridan
- To begin with, we have no need, he argues, of Aristotelian logic, and are not helped by it.
