Logic
The study of correct reasoning, its forms, rules and fallacies.
Works to read
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction by John Stuart Mill, 1843
- An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole, 1854
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders Peirce, 1877-1878
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, 1739-1740
- On the Motion and Gait of Animals by Aristotle, c. 350-322 BC · Great Books
- Elements, Books I-VI by Euclid, c. 300 BC · Great Books
- Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens, 1690 · Great Books
- Science and Hypothesis by Henri Poincare, 1902 · Great Books
- Logical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal Character by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1679-1703
- Tales (Selection) by Edgar Allan Poe, 1839–1846
- On the Mode of Communication of Cholera by John Snow, 1849; second, much enlarged edition 1855
- On Formally Undecidable Propositions by Kurt Godel, 1931
Passages
From the texts
A syllogism is discourse in which, certain things being stated, something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so.
— Aristotle, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations
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