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Logic

Mikie April 21, 2020 at 00:07 3100 views 6 comments
When does the formation of logic begin? When Greek philosophy comes to an end and becomes a matter of schools, organization, and technique. It begins when eon, the being of beings, appears as idea, and as idea becomes the "object" of episteme. Logic originated in the ambit of the administration of the Platonic-Aristotelian schools. Logic is an invention of schoolteachers, not of philosophers.

Thoughts on the above?

Comments (6)

unenlightened April 22, 2020 at 21:27 #404420
'Logos' is the Greek, the word, or thought, or idea or reason.

Thus logic is the laws of thought - how it works; or of words.

Quoting Xtrix
Logic is an invention of schoolteachers, not of philosophers.


As if there is a clear demarcation. Philosophers do not teach and teachers do not philosophise.

Nonsense! When does it begin? at the beginning of the sentence. Talk nonsense - I do it quite often, and mean to communicate thereby. Analogy is nonsense because it is ana-logical.
Mikie April 22, 2020 at 23:27 #404446
Quoting unenlightened
'Logos' is the Greek, the word, or thought, or idea or reason.


That's one translation, the common one. There is that meaning in ancient Greece, as well. But in Homer, Heraclitus, and others, the word logos is more akin to "collect," or "gather."

Quoting unenlightened
Thus logic is the laws of thought - how it works; or of words.


What does the "thus" have to do with? This implies that this sentence follows from the first -- which it doesn't, because you haven't explained anything.

"Logic" is an abbreviation of ???????? ??????, as the "science of logos" -- logos here meaning "assertion." This sense of logos as "assertion" has an interesting story as well.

Quoting unenlightened
As if there is a clear demarcation. Philosophers do not teach and teachers do not philosophise.


Of course they do. What's the point?
Banno April 22, 2020 at 23:37 #404452
Quoting Xtrix
Logic is an invention of schoolteachers, not of philosophers.


So much the better for logic, then.
Mikie April 22, 2020 at 23:42 #404455
Eli April 25, 2020 at 19:52 #405643
Does anyone have time to help me solve a proof?? I'm desperate!
Mikie May 22, 2020 at 17:53 #415036
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