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Classical logic is bivalent, has excluded middle, and only quantifies over existent objects [Jacquette]
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Full Idea:
Classical logic (of Whitehead, Russell, Gödel, Church) is a two-valued system of propositional and predicate logic, in which all propositions are exclusively true or false, and quantification and predication are over existent objects only.
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From:
Dale Jacquette (Intro to I: Classical Logic [2002], p.9)
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A reaction:
All of these get challenged at some point, though the existence requirement is the one I find dubious.
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The big question of the Renaissance was how to govern everything, from the state to children [Foucault]
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Full Idea:
How to govern was one of the fundamental question of the fifteenth and sixteenth century. ...How to govern children, the poor and beggars, how to govern the family, a house, how to govern armies, different groups, cities, states, and govern one's self.
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From:
Michel Foucault (What is Critique? [1982], p.28), quoted by Johanna Oksala - How to Read Foucault 9
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A reaction:
A nice example of Foucault showing how things we take for granted (techniques of control) have been slowly learned, and then taught as standard. Of course, the Romans knew how to govern an army.
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