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Single Idea 5847

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

It belongs to dialectic to survey equally all kinds of syllogism.

Clarification

Syllogism are structured arguments, built up from premisses

Gist of Idea

It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms

Source

Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1355a)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'The Art of Rhetoric', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1991], p.68


A Reaction

Since dialectic is central to philosophy, this implies that philosophers ought to be students of logic. This duty seems to me to be taken more seriously in the analytical tradition than in the 'continental' tradition.