Search results for "Philosophy of logic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, a student of Plotinus and the editor of ... Most of the known details of the personal life of Porphyry are found ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 05:40, 30 November 2022
- Venn diagrams are schematic diagrams used in logic and in the branch ... The British philosopher, mathematician, and professor of logic, John ...10 KB (1,551 words) - 17:01, 3 May 2023
- that represents the logical structure of truth-functional connectives ... The truth-values, truth or falsity, of the sentences in this argument ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of ... will be true.” He also raised the paradox of future contingency with his ...17 KB (2,681 words) - 15:24, 29 January 2024
- In logic, a theorem is formally meant to be a formula that can be ... In general, the proofs of theorems have two components: a set of premises ...16 KB (2,524 words) - 18:26, 30 April 2023
- and logician. His logical analysis of mathematical problems made ... family in Prague, which was then part of the Austrian Empire. His father ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 11:18, 28 September 2023
- theological writer, and Anglican archbishop of Dublin (1831–1863). Whately’s ... to hold public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- Nyaya (Sanskrit meaning "rational argument") is one of the six orthodox (astika) schools of Hindu philosophy that focuses on logic ...14 KB (2,126 words) - 01:23, 17 November 2022
- Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 b.c.e.) was a Greek pre-Socratic ... Earlier pre-Socratic philosophers identified the ultimate principle ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 08:52, 18 November 2022
- modernizing Italy by introducing the ideas of Locke, Leibniz, and Hume and ... In 1753 Genovesi was appointed to the first European chair of “commerce ...9 KB (1,233 words) - 05:40, 11 August 2023
- by many philosophers and observers of philosophy to have been one ... is that there exists an infinite number of concrete and causally isolated ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 19:54, 23 August 2020
- A fallacy is an error in an argument. There are two main kinds of ... Refutations, there have been many systems of classifying fallacies. In this ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Latin: Claudius Galenus of Pergamum; ... Galen's experimental methods foreshadowed later developments ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Logic, from Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- known for being an outspoken critic of the Aristotelian philosophy ... made to memorize meaningless facts and rules of logic, and set out to reform ...18 KB (2,695 words) - 02:53, 24 November 2022
- [which] belongs to the school) was a method of learning taught by the academics ... It combined religious doctrine, study of the ideas of the Church fathers ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- Greek philospher and a favorite student of Aristotle, who appointed him ... Theophrastus was wrote a great number of books on a wide variety of ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
- The term “monad” was used by the Pythagoreans as the name of the ... The term "monad," however, is best known as a concept of ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- The principle of sufficient reason is the principle which is presupposed ... The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 21:33, 26 February 2023
- Positivism is a family of philosophical views characterized by a highly ... As Niccola Abbagnano has put it: The characteristic theses of positivism ...11 KB (1,561 words) - 05:45, 30 November 2022
