PHIL 1050 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Philosophy Summary Notes

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Chapter 3: ideas combinations & the mathematics of thoughts. From 15th-17th century rhetoric, the study of persuasive speech was practiced. Aristotle had written on rhetoric, and logic texts in the renaissance increasingly gave their attention to that subject rather than to studies of valid argument. The 17th century there occurred such a revolution in thought. Except for leibniz, 17th century philosophers did not succeed in developing a better logical theory than aristotle"s. 17th century did establish 2 important ideas about deductive reasoning: the theory of deductive demonstration is part of psychology. It should provide part of the laws of thought, just as physics provides the laws of motion: the laws of thought have an algebraic structure, just as do the laws of arithmetic or the laws of motion. Later in mid 19th century, this idea formed the basis for the first fundamental advance in logic since aristotle.

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