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Ideas for 'The Elm and the Expert', 'New Essays on Human Understanding' and 'Review of 'Aenesidemus''

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5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 3. Value of Logic

12992	Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts [Leibniz]
	Full Idea: Logic teaches us how to order and connect our thoughts.
	From: Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 3.10)
	A reaction: Leibniz had a higher opinion of logic than contemporaries like Locke. The question is whether logic can actually teach us better order than we could otherwise manage, or whether it just describes what most thinkers do.

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 4. Pure Logic

2442	Inferences are surely part of the causal structure of the world [Fodor]
	Full Idea: Inferences are surely part of the causal structure of the world.
	From: Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §3)