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Index
Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Handbook of the History of Logic
Front Matter
Handbook of the History of Logic
Copyright page
Preface
Contributors
Chapter 1: Logic Before Aristotle: Development or Birth?
Introduction
1 Developing the Conceptual Foundations
2 Concepts and Vocabulary Presupposed by Logic
3 Logic and Definitions
4 Logic and the Method of Division
5 Summary
APPENDIX 1 Did Aristotle Base Logic on Solid Foundations?
APPENDIX 2 Logic and Grammar: EpistemĒ, TechnĒ Empeiria?
Chapter 2: Aristotle’S Early Logic
1 Biographical Background
2 Motivation
3 Origins
4 Syllogisms in the Generic Sense
5 Why the Fallacies are Important
6 A Logic of Generic Syllogisms
7 Inferentializing the Consequence Relation
8 Aristotle’s Validity
9 Necessities
10 Refutations
11 Ad Hominem Proof
12 Sophistical Refutations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 3: Aristotle’s Underlying Logic
1 Introduction
2 Aristotle’s Ancient Model of an Underlying Logic
3 Aristotle’s Logical Methodology for Establishing Deduction Rules
4 Refining the Set of Syllogism Rules
5 Concepts in Aristotle’s Logic
6 Summary of Aristotle’s Accomplishments in Prior Analytics
7 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
Chapter 4: Aristotle’s Modal Syllogisms
1 Łukasiewicz’s Assertoric System, Ła
2 Łukasiewicz’s Modal System, ŁM
3 Modern Modal Predicate Logic
4 Mccall’s L-X-M System
5 Semantics for L-X-M
6 The Chain Condition, Relevance Logic and The Ap System
7 Contingent Syllogisms
8 Qlxm’
9 The Aristotelicity of Qlxm’
10 Tally of the Two-Premised Q-Valid Syllogisms
11 Extensions
Chapter 5: Indian Logic
1 Argumentation within Dialectic and Debate: Pragmatic Criteria for Good Argumentation
2 Buddhist Contributions in Indian Logic: Formal Criteria for Good Argumentation
3 Jaina Contributions in Indian Logic: the Logic of Assertion
4 Logic in Navya-Nyya: the Metaphysical Basis of Logic
Chapter 6: The Megarians and the Stoics
1 Introduction
2 Historical Survey
3 Preliminaries
4 Semantics
5 Lekta
6 Axiōmata
7 The Conditional Axiōma
8 Semantics and Inference
9 Form in Stoic Logic
10 The Linguistic Evidence
11 What Stoic Disjunction May Have Been
12 Stoic Disjunction as a Hyper-Relation
Chapter 7: Arabic Logic
Introductory Comments
1 Limits, Methods and Sources for the Chapter
2 The Translation of the Organon
3 Alfarabi and Avicenna
4 Logic and the Islamic Disciplines
5 Logic After Avicenna
6 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
A Avicenna’s Modals
B Later Modal Logic
C Bibliographical Notes
Chapter 8: The Translation of Arabic Works on Logic into Latin in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Acknowledgements
Index
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