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Full Idea

According to the Peripatetics (Aristotelians), only syllogistic laws stated in variables belong to logic, and not their applications to concrete terms.

Gist of Idea

Syllogisms are only logic when they use variables, and not concrete terms

Source

JC Beall / G Restall (Logical Pluralism [2006], 2.5)

Book Ref

Beall,J/Restall,G: 'Logical Pluralism' [OUP 2006], p.19

A Reaction

[from Lukasiewicz] Seems wrong. I take it there are logical relations between concrete things, and the variables are merely used to describe these relations. Variables lack the internal powers to drive logical necessities. Variables lack essence!

The 31 ideas from JC Beall / G Restall

10688 'Equivocation' is when terms do not mean the same thing in premises and conclusion [Beall/Restall]
10690 Formal logic is invariant under permutations, or devoid of content, or gives the norms for thought [Beall/Restall]
10695 Logical consequence is either necessary truth preservation, or preservation based on interpretation [Beall/Restall]
10689 A step is a 'material consequence' if we need contents as well as form [Beall/Restall]
10691 Logical consequence needs either proofs, or absence of counterexamples [Beall/Restall]
10693 Models are mathematical structures which interpret the non-logical primitives [Beall/Restall]
10692 Hilbert proofs have simple rules and complex axioms, and natural deduction is the opposite [Beall/Restall]
10696 A 'logical truth' (or 'tautology', or 'theorem') follows from empty premises [Beall/Restall]
13233 Propositions commit to content, and not to any way of spelling it out [Beall/Restall]
13232 Logic studies arguments, not formal languages; this involves interpretations [Beall/Restall]
13235 Logic studies consequence; logical truths are consequences of everything, or nothing [Beall/Restall]
13234 The view of logic as knowing a body of truths looks out-of-date [Beall/Restall]
13236 Logical truth is much more important if mathematics rests on it, as logicism claims [Beall/Restall]
13237 Preface Paradox affirms and denies the conjunction of propositions in the book [Beall/Restall]
13239 Judgement is always predicating a property of a subject [Beall/Restall]
13238 Syllogisms are only logic when they use variables, and not concrete terms [Beall/Restall]
13240 A sentence follows from others if they always model it [Beall/Restall]
13241 The model theory of classical predicate logic is mathematics [Beall/Restall]
13243 Excluded middle must be true for some situation, not for all situations [Beall/Restall]
13242 It's 'relevantly' valid if all those situations make it true [Beall/Restall]
13244 Relevant necessity is always true for some situation (not all situations) [Beall/Restall]
13245 Relevant consequence says invalidity is the conclusion not being 'in' the premises [Beall/Restall]
13246 Relevant logic does not abandon classical logic [Beall/Restall]
13247 A truthmaker is an object which entails a sentence [Beall/Restall]
13248 We can rest truth-conditions on situations, rather than on possible worlds [Beall/Restall]
13249 (∀x)(A v B) |- (∀x)A v (∃x)B) is valid in classical logic but invalid intuitionistically [Beall/Restall]
13250 Free logic terms aren't existential; classical is non-empty, with referring names [Beall/Restall]
13252 Some truths have true negations [Beall/Restall]
13254 A doesn't imply A - that would be circular [Beall/Restall]
13255 Relevant logic may reject transitivity [Beall/Restall]
13253 There are several different consequence relations [Beall/Restall]