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A Simple Method for Solving Simple and Complex Syllogisms
A Simple Method for Solving Simple and Complex Syllogisms

Author(s): Jana Yaneva
Subject(s): Epistemology, Logic, Analytic Philosophy, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: Philosophy; methodology; solving syllogisms; simple and complex syllogisms; logic; traditional logic; truth;

Summary/Abstract: Has Traditional Logic come out of date over the last 122 years since the publication of John Venn’s Symbolic Logic? As it might be expected, it would be difficult to stop Tradition in a discipline such as Traditional Logic. This is so because it is founded upon a perfect theory of inference: Syllogistics. In spite of constant attempts to present it from a contemporary point of view, Syllogistics remains an indispensable method for natural reasoning in a natural language, and it has important real-life applications. The standard topics included under Traditional Logic are: Concept, Proposition, Reasoning, Proof, and so on – all that serves to provide us with practical skills for inferencing truths from other truths. There is no doubt that the main theory of inference in Traditional Logic is Syllogistics. [...]

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 87-100
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English