Logic, or, The art of thinking : containing, besides common rules, several new observations appropriate for forming judgment

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Logic, or, The art of thinking : containing, besides common rules, several new observations appropriate for forming judgment

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole ; translated and edited by Jill Vance Buroker

(Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy)

Cambridge University Press, 1996

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  • : pbk

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La logique, ou, L'art de penser

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Based on the 5th ed., 1683

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxxiv) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a centre of the Catholic Jansenist movement in seventeenth-century France. Their enormously influential Logic or the Art of Thinking, which went through five editions in their lifetimes, treats topics in logic, language, theory of knowledge and metaphysics, and also articulates the response of 'heretical' Jansenist Catholicism to orthodox Catholic and Protestant views on grace, free will and the sacraments. In attempting to combine the categorical theory of the proposition with a Cartesian account of knowledge, their Logic represents the classical view of judgment which inspired the modern transformation in logic and semantic theory by Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein and recent philosophers. This edition presents a new translation of the text, together with a historical introduction and suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • First discourse
  • Second discourse
  • First part, containing reflections on ideas
  • Second part of the logic, containing reflections people have made about their judgments
  • Third part of the logic, on reasoning
  • Fourth part of the logic, on method
  • Index.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA27683134
  • ISBN
    • 0521482496
    • 0521483948
  • LCCN
    95023146
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, [England] ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxxviii, 281 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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