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Ideas for Aristotle, Charles Sanders Peirce and Stoic school

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic
Only study logic if you think your own reasoning is deficient [Peirce]
     Full Idea: It is foolish to study logic unless one is persuaded that one's own reasonings are more or less bad.
     From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Criterion of Validity in Reasoning [1903], II)
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 6. Classical Logic
Demonstrations by reductio assume excluded middle [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: Demonstrations by reduction to the impossible assume that everything is asserted or denied.
     From: Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 77a23)
     A reaction: This sounds like the lynchpin of classical logic.
5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic
Predications of predicates are predications of their subjects [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: Whenever one thing is predicated of another as of a subject, all things said of what is predicated will be said of the subject also.
     From: Aristotle (Categories [c.331 BCE], 01b10)