Reasoning
Drawing conclusions from premises, by deduction, induction or analogy.
Works to read
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781 (revised 1787) · Great Books
- The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant, 1790 · Great Books
- A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume, 1739-1740
- Regensburg Lecture by Benedict XVI, 2006
- Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes, 1637 · Great Books
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume, 1748 · Great Books
- Proslogion by Anselm of Canterbury, 1077–1078
- An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole, 1854
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science by Charles Sanders Peirce, 1877-1878
- Fides et Ratio by John Paul II, 1998
- Euthydemus by Plato, c. 384 BC · Great Books
- The Republic by Plato, c. 380 BCE · Great Books
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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